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The Importance of Candor in Medicine

"Grappling" is the memoir of a doctor who died last year. The book was written over 20 years during which he worked as a doctor and writer. "I wanted it to be again, like a bit more of a messier book," says author Tarl Bennet. Bennett: I think there's this incredible kind of shadow book in this book that you could imagine if he hadn't died.

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