Grief Connects Us: A Neurosurgeon's Lessons on Love, Loss, and Compassion

Joseph D. Stern, MD

May 2021 · Tantor Media Inc · Narrated by Adam Verner

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In his exceptionally thought-provoking and moving memoir, neurosurgeon Joseph D. Stern explores how personal loss influences the way physicians relate to patients and their families. How does a doctor who deals with the death of patients on a regular basis confront his own loss when his beloved sister is living out her last days? Despite a career as a neurosurgeon, Joseph Stern learned more about the nature of illness and death after his younger sister Victoria developed leukemia than his formal medical training ever taught him. Her death broke down the self-protective barriers he had built to perform his job and led to a profound shift in his approach to medicine. During the year of his sister's illness, Dr. Stern developed a greater awareness of the needs of patients and their families; of the burdens they carry; of the importance of connection, communication, and gratitude; and of what it means to ask the right questions.

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Joseph D. Stern, MD is a partner in the country's largest neurosurgical group practice, Carolina Neurosurgery and Spine Associates, and practices general adult neurosurgery at the Moses H. Cone Hospital, in Greensboro, North Carolina. Visit Dr. Stern at josephsternmd.com.

Adam Verner has narrated over one hundred books, including the AudioFile Earphones Award winner Pavilion of Women by Pearl S. Buck. Adam works as a full-time voice actor and on stage in Chicago.

Dr. Sanjay Gupta is an American neurosurgeon and medical reporter, best known as CNN's chief medical correspondent. His books Chasing Life and Cheating Death were New York Times and national bestsellers. In January 2011, he was named "one of the 10 most influential celebrities" by Forbes magazine.

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