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No Apparent Distress: A Doctor's Coming-Of-Age on the Front Lines of American Medicine - Hardcover

Pearson, Rachel

 
9780393249248: No Apparent Distress: A Doctor's Coming-Of-Age on the Front Lines of American Medicine
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0393249247 ISBN 13: 9780393249248
Verlag: W W NORTON & CO, 2017

Inhaltsangabe

In medical charts, the term N.A.D. (No Apparent Distress) is used for patients who appear stable. The phrase also aptly describes Americas medical system when it comes to treating the underprivileged. Medical students learn on the bodies of the poorand the poor suffer from their mistakes.Rachel Pearson confronted these harsh realities when she started medical school in Galveston, Texas. Pearson, herself from a working-class background, remains haunted by the suicide of a close friend, experiences firsthand the heartbreak of her own errors in a patients care, and witnesses the ruinous effects of a hurricane on a Texas towns medical system. In a free clinic where the motto is All Are Welcome Here, she learns how to practice medicine with love and tenacity amidst the raging injustices of a system that favors the rich and the white. No Apparent Distress is at once an indictment of American health care and a deeply moving tale of one doctors coming-of-age.

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Rachel Pearson, MD, PhD, is a resident physician who also holds a PhD from the Institute for the Medical Humanities. Her writing has appeared in Scientific American, the Guardian, the Texas Observer, and the New York Times Book Review.

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Verlag
W W NORTON & CO
Erscheinungsdatum
2017
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0393249247
ISBN 13 
9780393249248
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
272
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