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What Patients Taught Me: A Medical Student's Journey
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 609
EAN: 9781570615276
Edition: 1
ISBN: 1570615276
Label: Sasquatch Books
Manufacturer: Sasquatch Books
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 240
Publication Date: August 28, 2007
Publisher: Sasquatch Books
Studio: Sasquatch Books
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Editorial Review:
In this deeply human memoir, Audrey Young uses her skills as a keen observer of people and recorder of details to track her development as a doctor and, ultimately, as a person. She chronicles her experiences as a medical student in the most remote regions of the American West and Africa and it is in these remote areas where Young’s education truly begins. A baby’s rapid deterioration, a terminal cancer patient’s refusal of treatment, clinics where AIDS and tuberculosis are everyday realities from these crises the author draws the hardest lessons of all, the ones only patients can teach. Young’s graceful prose captures the immediacy and emotional complexity of lives in distress. Her quiet sensitivity and intuition, qualities that make great doctors and writers alike, shine throughout this work.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - The human element in medicine
In "What Patients Taught Me," author Audrey Young, M.D. describes her path in the study of medicine. Growing up in a comfortable Seattle household, she became interested in socioeconomic justice. As an undergrad at Berkeley she "wanted to be an urban doctor for neglected populations."
She chose the University of Washington Medical School, an institution with a " ... dispersed ... program to train medical students from the Pacific Northwest to practice as rural doctors." Under this program, ... Read More
Rating:  - Great book
If you are in the medical field you need to read this book. It's great to see someone who is in the medical field for the people and not the money.
If you don't pick something up from this book as to how to handle your patients, I'd be real surprised.
Rating: - Inspirational
After reading the author's accounts of rural medicine, I've begun to strongly consider applying for a rural-based residency upon completion of medical school.
Her tone isn't as pompous as some other similar books I've read. She's very down to earth, and doesn't try to make herself sound impressive by using jargon and fancy words. I've already recommended it for friends who are looking into going into medicine. A friend gave this book to me as a gift after reading it, and I plan on doing ... Read More
Rating: - What Patients Taught Me : A Medical Student's Journey
It was very thoughtfully written.
It was a topic of great interest to me.
The evolution of her insight into her patients was craftfully presented.
My only negative comment concerns the less than excellent level of literary skill.
Rating: - A medical student's narrative of lessons learned from patients in Alaska to Africa.
When one conceives of the typical American medical school student's training one usually envisions students learning core clinical sciences the first two years and then proceeding on to rotations in major, large intercity hospitals. Yet, a quick glance at the inside jacket of this personal narrative mentions places like Bethel, Alaska and South Africa - not typical locales where one would expect to see a budding young physician. The singular uniqueness of the experience initially captures one's attention ... Read More
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