One Hundred Days

”[A] vivid memoir…lucid and gentle. It is the story of a doctor with the heart of a poet.” –The New York Times Book Review

“Extraordinary. Fate gave serious pause to the young physician who wrote this powerfully affecting and instructive book – and, too, in a sense, fate gave us what happened: a writer’s thoughtful and stirring response to an experience that nurtured his expressive life even as it seriously threatened his future. Surely every medical student will want to make this book’s acquaintance – and so, too, the rest of us mortals.” –Robert Coles, author of The Spiritual Life of Children

“A splendidly written, thoughtful, and honest medical adventure story. As an exploration of what uncertainty in medicine means to patients and doctors, there is nothing better.”
–David J. Rothman, author of Strangers at the Bedside

“Lean, taut, suspenseful…One Hundred Days is a searing portrayal of the human experience in this contemporary era of high-tech medicine. You will be deeply informed about the body’s response to disease as well as inspired by the possibility of lucidity, humor, and courage in the face of death.” –Irvin Yalom, author of Momma and the Meaning of Life

David Biro was educated at the University of Pennsylvania and at Columbia and Oxford Universities. He teaches dermatology at the State University of New York’s Downstate Medical Center and practices in Brooklyn. He has written previously about his illness in the New York Times Magazine. He lives in New York City.

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