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Title: The Tincture of Time
Subtitle: A Memoir of (Medical) Uncertainty
Author: Elizabeth L. Silver
Narrator: Elizabeth L. Silver
Format: Unabridged
Length: 7 hrs and 16 mins
Language: English
Release date: 04-25-17
Publisher: Tantor Audio
Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes
Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs
Publisher's Summary:
Growing up as the daughter of a dedicated surgeon, Elizabeth L. Silver felt an unquestioned faith in medicine. When her six-week-old daughter, Abby, was rushed to the neonatal intensive care unit with sudden seizures, and scans revealed a serious brain bleed, her relationship to medicine began to change. The Tincture of Time is Silver's gorgeous and haunting chronicle of Abby's first year. It's a year of unending tests, doctors' opinions, sleepless nights, and, above all, uncertainty. The mysterious circumstances of Abby's hospitalization attract dozens of specialists, none of who can offer a conclusive answer about what went wrong or what the future holds. As Silver explores what it means to cope with uncertainty as a patient and parent, she looks beyond her own story for comfort, probing literature and religion, examining the practice of medicine throughout history, and reporting the experiences of doctors, patients, and fellow caretakers. The result is a brilliant blend of personal narrative and cultural analysis, at once a poignant snapshot of a parent's struggle and a wise meditation on the reality of uncertainty, in and out of medicine, and the hard-won truth that time is often its only cure.
Critic Reviews:
"A mother's uncertainty about her baby daughter's medical care pervades this unsettling memoir.... Readers will share Silver's unease with uncertainty. This will resonate with anyone who has experienced diagnostic difficulties." (
Kirkus)
