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In a Virginia penitentiary

and it's also a memoir about his own struggle to recover from his addiction to painkillers

weight fluctuations

Tracing events from the Anschluss in Vienna

vowing to never surrender

With the End in Mind gideon crew series In a Virginia penitentiaryFor readers of Atul Gawande and Paul Kalanithi, a palliative care doctor's breathtaking stories from 30 years spent caring for the dying. Modern medical technology is allowing us to live longer and fuller lives than ever before. And for the most part, that is good news. But with changes in the way we understand medicine come changes in the way we understand death. Once a familiar, peaceful, and gentle if sorrowful transition, death has come to be