The Measure of Our Days

{{short description|Book by Jerome Groopman}}

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| author = Jerome Groopman

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| country = United States

| language = English

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| genre = Non-fiction

| publisher = Viking Adult

| release_date = 1997

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| media_type = Hardback

| pages = 224 pp (first edition, hardback)

| isbn = 0-670-87570-8

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The Measure of Our Days: A Spiritual Exploration of Illness (alternately New Beginnings at Life's End) is a book of case studies of patients by Jerome Groopman, published by Penguin Books in October 1997.{{cite book|author=Christopher P. Vogt|title=Patience, Compassion, Hope, and the Christian Art of Dying Well|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YcBeSmC1l_AC&pg=PA86|date=1 January 2004|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield|isbn=978-0-7425-3186-4|page=86}} It was later serialized in The New Yorker and in The Boston Globe Sunday Magazine. In 2000, it became the inspiration for the TV show Gideon's Crossing, which was nominated for a Golden Globe.