
In Shock: How Nearly Dying Made Me a Better Intensive Care Doctor book by Rana Awdish
By Rana AwdishIn Shock: How Nearly Dying Made Me a Better Intensive Care Doctor book by Rana Awdish
'An enthralling page-turner... Anyone whose life has been touched by illness will be transfixed by this deeply moving tale' Rachel Clarke, author of Your Life in My Hands 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. Published By Bantam Press on 2017-10-30
Book details
- Paperback
- 266 pages
- English
- 0593079493
- 9780593079492
About Rana Awdish
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 Read More about Rana Awdish
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