Critical Praise

"To deal constantly with the worst diseases but to preserve all one's humanity, one's hopefulness, one's dedication to life, makes for an ideal physician; and if that physician can also write beautifully, tenderly, truthfully of his patients, and of his complex, delicate relationships with them, you have a remarkable book, you have The Measure of Our Days. "

——Oliver Sacks, M.D.

"As simple and extraordinary as the murmur of the human heart. . . Groopman effectively commingles science and the sacred, head and heart, in his examination of core questions of existence. "

——The Boston Globe

"Leaves one grateful for the existence of physicians like Dr. Groopman and books like this one. It's a book to be cherished. "

——Rabbi Harold S. Kushner

"Groopman writes with the eye of a poet, the heart of a philosopher, and the voice of a novelist. . . These. . .extraordinary portraits of life against death are informed by the author's grounding in a living biblical vision of teaching and healing. "

——Publishers Weekly

"A philosophical and scientific work that is both gently pedagogical and deeply moving. "

——Richard Selzer, The Wall Street Journal