What Patients Taught Me

A Medical Student's Journey

Audrey Young

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Sasquatch Books
15 October 2012

True stories; Medicine

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.

By: Audrey Young
Imprint: Sasquatch Books
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 138mm, Spine: 13mm
Weight: 244g
ISBN: 9781570615276
ISBN 10: 1570615276
Pages: 240
Publication Date: 15 October 2012
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

A staff physician at Seattle's Harborview Medical Center, Dr. Audrey Young is also an instructor in the department of medicine at the University of Washington.

Reviews for What Patients Taught Me: A Medical Student's Journey

Young is a gifted writer, and her prose is mesmerizing. She perfectly balances the details of breathtaking countryside with harsh medical realities to weave stories that capture one's imagination and draw us fully in. --Journal of the American Medical