Saving Grace
What Patients Teach Their Doctors about Life, Death, and the Balance in Between
- Publisher: Resource Publications (Wipf and Stock)
- Published: 2023
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Publisher's Description
From the OR to the ICU, Dr. David Alfery brings you into a hidden world of medicine that has never before been seen. You will witness the exhilaration a physician feels when a life is miraculously saved, the terror when a life is on the line, the shock of an unexpected demise, the grace patients evidence when facing the end of life, the anguish one suffers when a family member is perilously close to dying, and much more. Saving Grace illuminates what really goes on in the life and death struggles in acute care medical settings. As a result, you will view your own doctor in a new light. Saving Grace will broaden your perspective on death, and it will bring into focus the fact that, at some point, we all will die. More importantly, it will forever change the way you live.
Endorsements (4)
“Saving Grace is transformational. Beautifully written, Dr. Alfery’s perspective on life, death, and beyond will change the way you live each day.”
“There are many memoirs written by doctors—this is certainly one of the most notable.”
“A touchingly human book, Saving Grace invites us to follow Dr. David Alfery as he grows from naive medical student to caring senior physician and anesthesiologist. . . . As he becomes increasingly aware that all lives do end, he becomes increasingly committed to making each day matter. If that sounds clichéd, it isn’t as presented in the gentle prose and striking storytelling that enliven this profoundly affecting book.”
“Dr. Alfery’s highly readable casebook and memorable clinical memoir amounts to The Anesthesiologist’s Tale . . . nothing will so clarify the thin pink line between life and the cold greyness of death and shake readers into sensible health maintenance as reading how anesthesiologists routinely struggle to balance physiology and control untoward responses to surgical interventions. A highly accessible clinical memoir! Also an illumination of how a caring clinician not just thinks of death and dying, but acts to keep patients alive or to help them find an adequate passing.”
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