After his death, Bennett used her skills as a veteran investigative reporter to determine the cost of their mission of hope. The book chronicles the extraordinary measures Bennett and Foley took to preserve not only his life but also the life of their family. She can be reached at inpracticemd or through her website, Bennett is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist, editor, and author of several books including “ The Cost of Hope: The Story of a Marriage, a Family and a Quest for Life “ (2012), her memoir of the battle she and Foley, her late husband, fought against his kidney cancer. Suzanne Koven is a primary care internist at Massachusetts General Hospital and writes the monthly “In Practice” column for the Globe. Ignore the wrapper - and savor its rich contents.
in Philadelphia” - isn’t.īennett has written a deeply felt memoir wrapped in a rather half-hearted discourse on the economics of health care. Her report of the varied prices of his CAT scans - “$550 in April 2001 at EPIC imaging in Portland to $3,232 in 20. Perhaps it is because the emotional costs of heroic medical care are more interesting than the monetary costs, important as those are.īennett’s five-page listing of the items Foley left behind - “San Francisco cable car conductor hat. Perhaps this is because, other than for a very brief period, her family is never in any danger of going without health insurance. What doesn’t feel compelling, though, are Bennett’s forays into the financial aspects of Foley’s care, or of health care in America generally. We also empathize with Bennett’s desire, in the years after Foley’s death in 2007, to track down the physicians who cared for him, to make sense of the decisions made during his illness.
As Foley’s cancer progresses, we ache for him, Bennett, and their children.
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