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Tennessee’s newest independent bookstore opens its doors in Memphis

By Stephen Usery | August 17, 2017

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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

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