What Patients Taught Me: A Medical Student's Journey
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| Rating | : | 4.66 (717 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1570615276 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 240 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-10-31 |
| Language | : | English |
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In her travels, the doctor attends to terminal illness, AIDS, tuberculosis, and premature birth in small rural communities throughout the world.. 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 book explores some of the difficult and deeply personal questions a 23-year-old doctor confronts with her very first dying patient, and continues to struggle with as she strives to become a good doctor
Despite her sometimes over-earnest tone and the use of some medical terminology, most of her reflections are poignant, such as when she describes her "resigned solitude" amidst 36-hour, sleep-deprived shifts. Young dissects the histories of these patients-almost all poor and mostly from rural settings-and reveals not only their medical dilemmas, but their personal and socioeconomic ones. Young's schooling taught her that "everything important comes from the patient's story." She predicates her perceptive memoir on just this lesson, as she exposes the unique life of a physician-to-be and the human chronicle behind the diseases she struggles to treat. All rights reserved. From Publishers Weekly A firsthand depiction of the hardships and rewards of medical school, this sensitive memoir may serve as a guide to help readers who are cons
Beyond HMOs and Malpractice Headlines Patricia Murray Audrey Young reminds us in this interesting and honest narrative how powerfully a good doctor yearns to help, trains for that purpose, and how hard it is not to be able to fix everything all the time. It is clear that she cares about her patients and that textbook procedures are sometimes not enough--which makes this an account of the best in medical practice. This is an encouraging book, for those who have developed medicophobia, and it's also a really good read.. The human element in medicine In "What Patients Taught Me," author Audrey Young, M.D. describes her path in the study of medicine. Growing up in a comfortable Seattle household, she became interested in socioeconomic justice. As an undergrad at Berkeley she "wanted to be an urban doctor for neglected populations."She chose the University of Washington Medical School, an institution with a " dispersed program to train medical students from the Pacific Northwest to practice as rural doctors." Under this program, called WWAMI for its presence in Washington, Wyoming, Alaska. Teaching Doctors Robin Houck I am a general internist and public health physician by training and work in a busy county hospital emergency department. Dr. Young's book is one of the most striking and insightful accounts of physician training I have read. Refreshing in its originality, unique in its perspective, it delivers much more than one woman's journey - Dr. Young teaches us, patients and physicians alike, the essentials of doctoring the way no training program can. Riveting, wrenching, and warming, these are stories that resonate with each of us at some time in our