Won a book on Goodreads!

As a part of my Orange Space adventures, I signed up on Goodreads yesterday to extend my reading scope beyond the bullet-pointed medical review books. Goodreads offers free Giveaways of books recently published for a lucky few to read and review.  Much to my happy surprise, I was one of the winners of the free Giveaways- a book called Hospice Voices: Lessons for Living at the End of Life by Eric Lindner.

Being well on my way to becoming 3/4 of a doctor,  I will undoubtedly witness and be a part of the care of terminally ill patients.  Medical school will teach me what tests to run, which drugs to give to make patients most comfortable and without pain in their last moments. However, most of the issues regarding dying, dying with respect and dignity, dying with an acceptance of the life one has lived, lessons learned, and perspectives gained, medical school does not teach.  Though, I've gotten a peek into the end of life experience from reading Dying Well by Ira Byock, a medical doctor, it's time to see it through Eric Lindner's lens, a hospice volunteer.  Though this book isn't going to deviate wildly from the medical realm, I hope it will give me a glimpse of the humanities of a very medical phenomenon.  I am eagerly awaiting my book! Please ship it soon! 

In the meanwhile, I will try to finish reading the Rules of the Road today.  It is not surprise I still have not gotten my driver's license at 24...the reading material is not in the least bit interesting. Oh, but it will get done! Must just chug along!