Dr Rana Awdish

In Shock: How nearly dying made me a better doctor

In Shock: How nearly dying made me a better doctor

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In Shock, by Rana Awdish, is a searing account of her journey from doctor to patient, revealing the dysfunction of her profession's disconnection from patients and the flaws in her own past practice. It is a brave roadmap for anyone navigating illness and a call to arms for doctors to see each patient as a human being.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 272 pages
Publication date: 24 January 2019
Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd


Sunday Times
Tense, powerful, and gripping, Rana Awdish's writing style is often nothing short of beautiful - evocative and emotional. Adam Kay, Observer

At seven months pregnant, intensive care doctor Rana Awdish suffered a catastrophic medical event, hemorrhaging nearly all of her blood volume and losing her unborn first child. She spent months fighting for her life in her own hospital, enduring a series of organ failures and multiple major surgeries.

Every step of the way, Awdish was faced with something even more unexpected and shocking than her battle to survive: her fellow doctors' inability to see and acknowledge the pain of loss and human suffering, the result of a self-protective barrier hard-wired in medical training.

In Shock is Rana Awdish's searing account of her extraordinary journey from doctor to patient, during which she sees for the first time the dysfunction of her profession's disconnection from patients and the flaws in her own past practice as a doctor. Shatteringly personal yet wholly universal, it is both a brave roadmap for anyone navigating illness and a call to arms for doctors to see each patient not as a diagnosis but as a human being.

Weight: 192g
Dimension: 190 x 149 x 17 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780552174756

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