Jerome Groopman shares what he has learned from 30 years of practicing medicine about hope and how it functions in sick people--and how difficult it is for a doctor to walk the line between optimism and false hope. The patients he wri...

The author of The Measure of Our Days explores the diverse ways in which hope and other positive emotions influence the healing process, drawing on thirty years of medical practice and a variety of real-life experiences to analyze the...

"This important and riveting book could change—and perhaps even save—your life."—Daniel Gilbert, author of Stumbling on HappinessMaking the right medical choices is harder than ever. Whether we're deciding to take a ch...