In Shock - Dr Rana Awdish

In Shock

How nearly dying made me a better doctor

(Autor)

Buch | Softcover
272 Seiten
2019
Corgi Books (Verlag)
978-0-552-17475-6 (ISBN)
13,70 inkl. MwSt
'I read the first chapters at such a pace that I almost had to remind myself to breathe.' Sunday Times

'Tense, powerful and gripping... her writing style is often nothing short of beautiful - evocative and emotional.' Adam Kay, Observer

At seven months pregnant, intensive care doctor Rana Awdish suffered a catastrophic medical event, haemorrhaging nearly all of her blood volume and losing her unborn first child. She spent months fighting for her life in her own hospital, enduring a series of organ failures and multiple major surgeries.

Every step of the way, Awdish was faced with something even more unexpected and shocking than her battle to survive: her fellow doctors’ inability to see and acknowledge the pain of loss and human suffering, the result of a self-protective barrier hard-wired in medical training.

In Shock is Rana Awdish's searing account of her extraordinary journey from doctor to patient, during which she sees for the first time the dysfunction of her profession’s disconnection from patients and the flaws in her own past practice as a doctor. Shatteringly personal yet wholly universal, it is both a brave roadmap for anyone navigating illness and a call to arms for doctors to see each patient not as a diagnosis but as a human being.

Rana Awdish is an intensive care doctor and the director of the Pulmonary Hypertension Programme at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit. Dr Awdish's mandate is to improve the patient experience across the US health system and speak on patient advocacy at healthcare venues across the country. She was awarded the Critical Care Teaching Award in 2016 and, in 2017, the Press Ganey Physician of the Year Award and The Schwartz Center's National Compassionate Caregiver Award.

Erscheinungsdatum
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 127 x 198 mm
Gewicht 189 g
Themenwelt Literatur Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
Medizin / Pharmazie Medizinische Fachgebiete Medizinethik
ISBN-10 0-552-17475-0 / 0552174750
ISBN-13 978-0-552-17475-6 / 9780552174756
Zustand Neuware
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