The Language of Cells

As a surgical pathologist for more than twenty-five years Spencer Nadler was not content with the distance between his lab and the patient. Meeting with those whose diseased cells he has diagnosed he offers them a rare understanding. Hanna Baylan is a woman as determined as he is to confront the cancer cells biopsied from her breast. Comille a young boy with Sickle Cell anemia has frequent racking pain but doesn’t let it interfere with his gusto for life. And 91-year old-conductor Mehli Mehta inspires comparison between the cellular rhythms that threaten his heart and those that govern his work.In these intimate lyrical portraits of people and their cells Nadler brings a unique clarity and compassion to medicine.