You Can Stop Humming Now: A Doctor's Stories of Life, Death and In Between 2018

Modern medicine is a world full of new technology and groundbreaking research. In the public eye, medical stories often begin with sirens and flashing lights and end in survival or death. But these are only the most visible narratives. As an intensive care physician treating the sickest patients, Daniela Lamas is fascinated by a different story: what happens after those whose lives are extended by days, months or years as a result of therapy and technology? You Can Stop Humming Now explores the complex answers to this question through the intimate accounts of patients and their families. A grandfather whose failing heart was replaced by a battery-operated pump; a salesman who found himself a kidney donor on social media; a student who survived a near-fatal overdose and returned home alive, but not the same - these moving narratives present a detailed picture of the delicate line between illness and health. Curious, wonderfully told and deeply personal, You Can Stop Humming Now is a compassionate, uncompromising look at the choices and realities that many of us and our families will face one day.