Cara E.:
You are there with the patient through multiple medical emergencies. You see how medicine can be improved for both the patient and the physician.
United States on Feb 18, 2024
Iain g Johnston:
This book is quite unique for several reasons
1. The doctor becomes patient and can authoritatively comment on both sides of the fence. She can give an accurate assessment of her medical care from the inside. What makes this even more precise is she spends most of her critical illness under the care of her own speciality.
2. She is brutally frank about when her care fell short. The verbatim dialogue she quotes by some medical staff are fairly damning (although her intent is not to blame an individual but highlight faults in the whole system).
3. The illnesses she endured were extremely painful and life threatening. Yet she did survive, and with enough vigour to plead the case for a better way.
Working in exactly the same job as the author, I really appreciate her passion for patient care, not just in getting the precise medical care correct but tending to the patients soul/ spirit/morale/dignity. By seeing patients as people with lives, interests, families, passions- as not diseases or bed number but as 4D human beings with emotions. And these emotions can be at the mercy of careless words or callous attitudes. These can be crushing. You cannot...
Australia on Jan 07, 2024
Freds Mom:
This book was written by an ICU doctor who was pregnant with her first child when she got sick and all hell broke loose in her body. I have had a similar experience, though not while pregnant, with a flesh-eating bacteria and a bleeding ulcer that nearly killed me, so this book was especially poignant to me. I was never as horribly ill as the author was, but I could definitely sympathize.
This patient goes into labor prematurely, delivers, and continues to have horrible bleeding and severe pain in her abdomen. She's admitted to the ICU instead of the maternity floor she expected, and while she was severely and critically ill, she overheard doctors using slang terms which were so disrespectful and inappropriate that she wanted to correct, but she couldn't speak. They thought she was unconscious, but she wasn't, not totally. Having worked as an ICU physician for several years, when she got better, she reflected on the times she had said things around a patient she thought was unconscious and wondered if they, like her, actually heard the medical slang.
What happens after her ICU stay, during which time her husband and her mother were always with her...
United States on Dec 08, 2021
Rpn2018:
This book has taught me so much about the way I communicate with my patients. Not just seeing them as another patient but a person.
Canada on Aug 08, 2020
Pamela:
There were some pretty harrowing parts to this book. In the end though it's the insight gained by the author that rings out. This is a book that can be a learning tool for all of us when dealing with another's suffering.
Canada on Jun 02, 2019
Zoeb Kamdar:
Great book
India on Nov 20, 2018
Leitir:
On one level this book is an emotional rollercoaster of a story about a remarkable woman, her near-death or actual-death experience, and her humbling account of her recovery from that as well as her courageous story of how she is seeking to reshape the cultural formation of medical professionals as a result. Indeed, this is how I first encountered the author’s writing - an article she published a few years ago where she alluded to her experience as a patient and how it formed and stiffened her resolve to make that new difference. If the book had confined itself to this mission, it would truly deserve all the accolades it has received. But this book is something much greater, much deeper, more whole, than any of these things. And yet it is wonderfully incomplete - the book is in some ways a clarion call to all of us who work in a professional space with the public to really think about how we talk to and relate with patients or learners. It ends with a clear indication that we have a lot to do. Like the subtle but clearly audible ringing of a small but beautifully ornate bell, the word “sacred” occurs a number of times through the book, particularly towards...
United Kingdom on Aug 12, 2018
Anonymous:
Firstly, this is a book I would recommend all to read along with many of Dr. Atul Gawande’s books and Dr. Pamela Wible’s work and when breath becomes air. This book hits home for so many reasons.
1. Dr. Awdish was my esteemed attending in 2013 Fall for a week on the pulmonary floor of the same hospital this happened at. The micu and sicu are also floors I’ve rotated on with other rotations. She mentioned this satirical almost comical need to protect students and residents to the point she’d bake cookies for them. I remember seeing that happen and thinking she is just showing her more feminine side and just a nicer physician. I assumed it was her foreign background that made her nicer but hadn’t known the darkness of her own experience at the time. You see we forget as individuals when we are barely surviving the medical world that even those who look more confident to us are internally suffering as well and hiding their own demons. This story proved it to me and gave me the courage to speak some of my own horrors both as a patient elsewhere and a student at ford to Dr.
Awdish!
About a year later someone pointed out a lecture called...
United States on Dec 01, 2017
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