A surgical pathologist journeys into the microscopic world of cells as he explores their sometimes deadly influence on the lives of people affected by them, describing the implications of sickle cells on a young patient and his mother, the effects of breast cancer cells for Hanna, and the cells in the brain of a patient with Alzheimer's. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.
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As a surgical pathologist for more than twenty-five years, Spencer Nadler was not content with the distance between his lab and the patient. Meeting with those whose diseased cells he has diagnosed, he offers them a rare understanding. <br>Hanna Baylan is a woman as determined as he is to confront the cancer cells biopsied from her breast. Comille, a young boy with Sickle Cell anemia, has frequent racking pain, but doesn’t let it interfere with his gusto for life. And 91-year old-conductor Mehli Mehta inspires comparison between the cellular rhythms that threaten his heart and those that govern his work.<br>In these intimate, lyrical portraits of people and their cells, Nadler brings a unique <br>clarity and compassion to medicine.
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