Comfort Always by Alan R. Cohen - ISBN: 9798895656198
Hardcover
A neurosurgeon’s memoir: celebrating life, postponing death, resurrecting healing.

Comfort Always

Healing in the Age of Technology

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  • Hardcover

    368 pages

  • Release Date

    5 May 2026

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Summary

A pediatric neurosurgeon’s affecting memoir about celebrating life, postponing death, and resurrecting the forgotten art of healing.

Advance Praise for Comfort Always

“An inspirational medical memoir about the forgotten art of healing. Comfort Always will make you laugh, cry and marvel at the resilience of families facing the crisis of their lives.” —Sanjay Gupta, MD, CNN chief medical correspondent

“Extraordinary stories about one of …

Book Details

ISBN-13:9798895656198
Author:Alan R. Cohen, Alan R. Cohen, MD
Publisher:Post Hill Press
Imprint:Post Hill Press
Format:Hardcover
Number of Pages:368
Release Date:5 May 2026
Weight:438g
Dimensions:210mm x 140mm x 30mm
About The Author

Alan R. Cohen

Alan R. Cohen, MD, graduated summa cum laude from Harvard University, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He obtained his medical degree from Cornell Medical College and currently serves as chief of pediatric neurosurgery and professor of neurosurgery, oncology and pediatrics at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

Previously, he was neurosurgeon-in-chief and chairman of the department of neurosurgery at Boston Children’s Hospital and the Franc D. Ingraham professor of neurological surgery at Harvard Medical School.

He was elected to the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Society, gave the Great Teachers Lecture on “The Art of Neurosurgery” at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and served as honored guest at the 2017 Annual Meeting of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons.

His bibliography includes over 260 journals, chapters, book publications, and over 350 national and international presentations.

His non-medical interests include music and sleight of hand. In 1974, he enjoyed an apprenticeship with The Great Slydini in New York City.

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