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November 21, 2021

“A world-renowned critical care doctor offers hope for ICU patients and their families in this timely, urgent, and compassionate narrative.”

~from the publisher

Saving Grace: What Patients Teach Their Doctors about Life, Death, and the Balance in Between

By David D. Alfery, MD
Resource Publications
166 pages
$21

“A touchingly human book, Saving Grace invites us to follow Dr. David Alfery as he grows from naive medical student to caring senior physician and anesthesiologist. . . As he becomes increasingly aware that all lives do end, he becomes increasingly committed to making each day matter.”

~ Theresa Brown, RN, author of Healing: When a Nurse Becomes a Patient

Every Deep-Drawn Breath: A Critical Care Doctor on Healing, Recovery, and Transforming Medicine in the ICU