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Blending the humor, compassion, and absorbing family drama of first-rate memoir with expert science writing, [Sandeep Jauhar] has composed a can't-miss introduction to what has been called the Age of Alzheimer's." -Sanjay Gupta, author of Keep Sharp and World War CA deeply affecting memoir of a father's descent into dementia, and a revelatory inquiry into why the human brain degenerates with age and what we can do about it.Almost six million A...

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A son's journey through his father's dementia

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A deeply affecting memoir of a father's descent into dementia, and a revelatory inquiry into why the human brain degenerates with age and what we can do about it.Almost six million Americans-about one in every ten over the age of sixty-five-have Alzheimer's disease or related dementias, and this number is projected to more than double by 2050. What is it like to live with and amid this increasingly prevalent condition-an affliction that some f...

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¿Jauhar weaves his own personal and family story into his history of the heart¿very effectively¿ This gives a certain dramatic tension to the book, as it tells the fascinating and rather wonderful history of cardiology.¿ ¿Henry Marsh, New Statesman¿A Mail on Sunday Book of the YearThe heart lies at the centre of life. For cardiologist Sandeep Jauhar it is an obsession.In this fascinating history he interweaves gripping scenes from the operatin...

The bestselling author of Intern and Doctored tells the story of the thing that makes us tick. Jauhar deftly braids tales of discovery, hubris, and sorrow with moving accounts of his family's history of heart ailments and the patients he's treated over many years.

Cardiologist Sandeep Jauher combines a history of medicine with gripping scenes from the operating theatre and a moving personal story in this new book about the heart. 'The narrative is gripping, and the writing is marvellous.' Siddhartha Mukherjee

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Deftly alternating between key historical episodes and his own work, the acclaimed author of "Doctored" and "Intern" tells the colorful and little-known story of the doctors who risked their careers and the patients who risked their lives to know and heal the human body's most vital organ.

Deftly alternating between key historical episodes and his own work, the acclaimed author of "Doctored" and "Intern" tells the colorful and little-known story of the doctors who risked their careers and the patients who risked their lives to know and heal the human body's most vital organ.

The bestselling author of Intern and Doctored tells the story of the thing that makes us tickFor centuries, the human heart seemed beyond our understanding: an inscrutable shuddering mass that was somehow the driver of emotion and the seat of the soul. As the cardiologist and bestselling author Sandeep Jauhar shows in Heart: A History, it was only recently that we demolished age-old taboos and devised the transformative procedures that have ch...

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Intern is Sandeep Jauhar's story of his days and nights in residency at a busy hospital in New York City, a trial that led him to question our every assumption about medical care today. Residency-and especially the first year, called internship-is legendary for its brutality. Working eighty hours or more per week, most new doctors spend their first year asking themselves why they wanted to be doctors in the first place.Jauhar's internship was ...

Intern is Dr. Sandeep Jauhar's story of his days and nights in residency at a busy hospital in New York City, a trial that led him to question his every assumption about medical care today. Residency-and especially its first year, the internship-is legendary for its brutality, and Jauhar's experience was even more harrowing than most. He switched from physics to medicine in order to follow a more humane calling-only to find that his new profes...