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What patients taught me : a medical student's journey / Audrey Young.
Holman Biotech Commons R729.5.R87 Y68 2004
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Young, Audrey, M.D.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Young, Audrey, M.D.
- Young, Audrey.
- Medical students--United States--Biography.
- Medical students.
- Medicine, Rural.
- Physician and patient.
- Students, Medical.
- United States.
- Rural Health Services.
- Physician-Patient Relations.
- Medical Subjects:
- Students, Medical.
- United States.
- Rural Health Services.
- Physician-Patient Relations.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- x, 228 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Seattle : Sasquatch Books, [2004]
- Summary:
- 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. In her travels, the doctor attends to terminal illness, AIDS, tuberculosis, and premature birth in small rural communities throughout the world. What Patients Taught Me is a compelling memoir of the emotional complexity of treating patients when their lives hang in the balance.
- ISBN:
- 1570613966
- OCLC:
- 55018899
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