All my reading life, the best part of the day has been that last half hour curled up in bed, reading a book.The last half hour of the day... is dedicated to people like me - "Physicians who aspire to a lifelong habit of a half hour's reading before turning out the light". The list of authors is like a roll call of the greatest writers and philosophers that have ever lived - Plato, Neruda, Hemingway, Chekhov - and in itself requires no further persuasion to read. But what makes this book attractive to a physician is that it deals with issues doctors frequently face but rarely ever articulate.