EP 1,155B - SAVING GRACE: What Patients Teach Their Doctors about Life, Death, and the Balance ...

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Dr. David Alfery discusses his new book: SAVING GRACE: What Patients Teach Their Doctors about Life, Death, and the Balance in Between.These are secret worlds known only to the doctors and nurses who work in them. For 36 years Dr. David Alfery was a cardiothoracic anesthesiologist in Nashville, TN. He brings you into a hidden world of medicine as it 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 at the end of life, and much more. SAVING GRACE illustrates the shared humanity of the bond between doctors and their patients. You will come to view your own doctor in a new light. It will bring into focus the fact that, sooner or later, each of us will die. More importantly, it will forever change the way you live