| What Patients Taught Me: A Medical Student's Journey Contributor(s): Young, Audrey (Author) |
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ISBN: 1570615276 ISBN-13: 9781570615276 Publisher: Sasquatch Books OUR PRICE: $17.06 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 2007 Annotation: With sensitive observation and graceful prose, this compelling memoir of a 23-year-old doctor traveling throughout western rural communities reveals the emotional complexity of treating patients when their lives hang in the balance. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Medical (incl. Patients) - Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs - Medical | Physician & Patient |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 2004048249 |
| Physical Information: 0.59" H x 5.56" W x 8.54" (0.62 lbs) 240 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Western U.S. - Demographic Orientation - Rural |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: A young doctor writes frankly of her medical training in small rural communities around the world, reflecting on the important lessons she learned along the way Do sleek high-tech hospitals teach more about medicine and less about humanity? Do doctors ever lose their tolerance for suffering? With sensitive observation and graceful prose, this stunning book explores some of these difficult and deeply personal questions, revealing the highs and lows of being a physician in training. Author Audrey Young was just 23-years-old when she took care of her first dying patient. In What Patients Taught Me, she writes of this life-altering experience and of the other struggles she faced in her journey to become a good doctor--from exhausting 36-hour shifts to a perilous rescue mission in an Eskimo village. As she travels to small rural communities throughout the world, she attends to terminal illness, AIDS, tuberculosis, and premature birth, coming face-to-face with mortality and the medical, personal, and socioeconomic dilemmas of her patients. |