What Patients Taught Me by Audrey Young (ISBN:1570613966)

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		What Patients Taught Me: A Medical Student's Journey
	
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			Audrey Young		
	
Do sleek high-tech hospitals teach more about medicine and less about humanity? Do doctors ever lose their tolerance for suffering? With sensitive...more
 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.   less

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few weeks ago

If you want understand why all medical school should get away from a Teaching Hospital, read this book. Otherwise I could feel the power of the experience until the very end. Does this has to do with the stress of the first few years of medical school? I don't know, but I must say that I would lose a view of my number one choice of medical school if I had not read this book.

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