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Jerome Groopman's “The Measure of Our Days” is a compelling look at what we can learn about living when life itself can no longer be taken for granted because of severe illness. Jerome Groopman, M.D., one of the world's leading researchers in cancer and AIDS, is Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Chief of Experimental Medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. His laboratory helped to develop the new protease inhibitors for the treatment of AIDS, and in January of 1998 his laboratory identified another gene that appears to play a role in breast cancer.
Groopman has written extensively for many publications such as The New York Times, The Boston Globe, The New Yorker, and The New Republic and Time magazine as well as medical and scientific journals. “The Measure of Our Days” tells the reader about Groopman's technique with patients, not directly, but through stories. Groopman takes his title from a Psalm of David, Psalm 39, "Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am.”
Dr. Groopman, as well as being a prolific writer, has an exceptional insight of the importance of confronting one's death, both for the patient and for their family and friends. The eight patients he synopsis’s vary extensively in their personalities and in their ailments, yet each of them in the end display a kind of heroism, strength, and the power to change their lives no matter what their diagnosis. Groopman's book is more than a collection of moving stories about sick people; it is about the strength hope gives us in times of need.
Groopman accounts the illnesses and deaths of four AIDS patients; there is the young boy who survived acute myeloblastic leukemia, but died of AIDS, from a blood transfusion, later in his teens; the physician with hemophilia, a fellow in Groopman's own research laboratory, who had been infected with HIV; an aged European businessman, and a young...
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