WHY DOESN'T YOUR STOMACH DIGEST ITSELF?

With the engaging, lyrical writing style of Bill Bryson and the deep medical and scientific knowledge of Siddartha Mukherjee, Avi Cooper and Tony Breu take readers on a wonder- filled tour of this miraculous thing called the human body.

Drs. Avraham Cooper and Anthony Breu's podcast, The Curious Clinicians, has become a go-to resource for laypersons, medical students and fellow doctors searching for answers to ques- tions like "Why do most people survive being struck by lightning?" (The short answer? Be- cause we have skin.) Avi and Tony have used their podcast, as well as their writing, to grow a dedicated, engaged audience (including robust followings on X/Twitter of more than 200,000 and upwards of 50,000 Curious Clinician podcast downloads per month). Although they are experienced doctors, they have never lost the sense of awe about the hu- man body's ability to confront and adapt to challenges and changeits resilience in the face of adversity and illness. Now they've captured their curiosity and wisdom in this book. Divided into three partsroutine resilience, adaptive resilience, and extreme resiliencethe book com- bines patient stories, medical history, and fascinating scientific explanations to enlighten, en- tertain and answer questions so many of us have asked about our bodies, including "how can a person function with only half a brain?" and "how could you survive falling from an air- plane without a parachute?" Avraham Cooper is a Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine physician and Assistant Profes- sor of Medicine at The Ohio State University. A graduate of Harvard Medical School, he has won multiple awards for his engaging teaching style and commitment to humanism in medi- cine. His writing and poetry have been published in the New England Journal of Medicine, the Journal of the American Medical Association, CHEST, and more. Anthony Breu is the Director of Resident Education at the Veterans Affairs Boston Healthcare System and an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. A graduate of the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, his work has been published in The New England Journal of Medicine, CHEST, and the Journal of the American Medical Association - Internal Medicine.