Poignant and oftentimes heart-breaking... However, it was a little bit triggering because of how much it talked of the death of a cancer patient (being myself someone who's had cancer and still dealing with its after-effects on my life). Wasn't expecting this to be so much a downer with patients dying in almost all the stories - was under the impression it would be more about hope and what doctors took away from their interactions with patients. In that sense, it felt very shallow (the stories were just so short, and I get it, given they were first in newspaper column format) but there was so much scope there, and again, all of them seemed to end on a sense of doom and doldrums...
Went in thinking this would be a hopeful kind of book - it's anything but, really, so please beware if that's what you also think you'll be getting