In shock : how nearly dying made me a better intensive care doctor / Rana Awdish.
By: Awdish, Rana [author.].
Publisher: London : Bantam Press, ©2018Description: 272 pages ; 23 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780593079492 (hbk.).Subject(s): Awdish, Rana | Awdish, Rana -- Health | Physician and patient | Medical ethics | Physicians -- United States -- BiographyGenre/Form: Print books.Summary: At seven months pregnant, intensive care doctor Rana Awdish suffered a catastrophic medical event, haemorrhaging nearly all of her blood volume and losing her unborn first child. She spent months fighting for her life in her own hospital, enduring multiple major surgeries and a series of organ failures. 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.| Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| On Shelf | R154.A93 A3 2017 (Browse shelf) | Available | AU00000000012444 |
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At seven months pregnant, intensive care doctor Rana Awdish suffered a catastrophic medical event, haemorrhaging nearly all of her blood volume and losing her unborn first child. She spent months fighting for her life in her own hospital, enduring multiple major surgeries and a series of organ failures. 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.