In The Tradition Of Atul Gawande and Sherwin Nuland, Marc Agronin writes of life as he sees it as a doctor. His beat is a nursing home in Miami that some would dismiss as "God's waiting room."<BR><BR>And to be sure, nothing in the young doctor's medical training had quite prepared him for what he was to discover there. For as Agronin first learned from ninety-eight-year-old Esther, and later from countless others, the true scales of aging aren't one-sidedùyou can't list the problems without also tallying the hopes and promises.<BR><BR>Drawing on moving personal experiencesùthose of his patients and their families, as well as his ownùand on in-depth interviews with pioneers in the field, Agronin conjures a spellbinding look at what aging means today: how our bodies and brains change over time, and how the very way we understand aging is constantly changing.