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That Good Night: Life and Medicine in the Eleventh Hour

Powell's Books on Hawthorne 3723 SE Hawthorne Blvd, Portland, OR, United States

Sunita Puri knew from a young age that the gulf between her parents’ experiences and her own was impossible to bridge, save for two elements: medicine and spirituality. Between days spent waiting for her mother, an anesthesiologist, to exit the OR, and evenings spent in conversation with her parents about their faith, Puri witnessed the tension between medicine’s impulse to preserve life at all costs and a spiritual embrace of life’s temporality. It was that tension that eventually drew Puri to palliative medicine. Interweaving stories of Puri’s family and the patients she cares for, That Good Night (Viking) is a meditation on impermanence and the role of medicine in helping us to live and die well.

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Health Justice Now: Single Payer and What Comes Next

Powell's City of Books 1005 W Burnside Street, Portland, OR, United States

Single payer healthcare is not complicated: the government pays for all care for all people. It’s cheaper than our current model, and most Americans (and their doctors) already want it. So what’s the deal with our current healthcare system, and why don’t we have something better? In Health Justice Now: Single Payer and What Comes Next (Melville House), Timothy Faust explains what single payer is, why we don’t yet have it, and how it can be won.

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Kathryn Kolbert & Julie F. Kay in Conversation With Dr. Jennifer Lincoln

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

Reproductive freedom has never been in more dire straits. Roe v. Wade protected abortion rights and Planned Parenthood v. Casey unexpectedly preserved them. Yet in the following decades these rights have been gutted by restrictive state legislation, the appointment of hundreds of anti-abortion judges, and violence against abortion providers. Today, the ultra-conservative majority at the Supreme Court has activists, medical providers, and everyday Americans worry that we are about to lose our most fundamental reproductive protections. When Roe is toppled, abortion may quickly become a criminal offense in nearly one-third of the United States. At least six states have enacted bans on abortion as early as six weeks of pregnancy – before many women are even aware they are pregnant. Today, 89% of U.S. counties…

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In-Store Reading: Gregg Coodley: Patients in Peril

Annie Bloom's Books 7834 SW Capitol Hwy, Portland, OR, United States

Annie Bloom's welcomes back local author Gregg Coodley for an in-store reading from his new book, Patients in Peril: The Demise of Primary Care in America. Signed and personalized copies are available for order! Please, please, please include the name for personalization in the order notes; or indicate "signed only." About Patients in Peril: Once, Americans could count on having a personal or primary care physician who would see patients for new or chronic problems, whether in the office or the hospital. The appeal of such a system is more than psychological, for both primary care and continuity of care with a physician over time are associated with improved patient care, greater patient satisfaction, and lower overall costs. These days are ending as primary care…

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