Diagnosticians and healers tackling complex adult medical conditions
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We had no CT scanner, no electronic health records, and a pharmacy that ran out of basic antibiotics by the third week. But we had time — time to talk to patients, time to listen to their stories, time to be present in a way that American medicine had never allowed me to be.
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She had seen seventeen doctors in four years. None of them had diagnosed her. Not because her condition was rare — it wasn't — but because nobody had taken the time to listen to her full history.
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I was four days into my internal medicine residency when I was called to my first code. I did everything by the book. She came back. And the first thing she did was thank me — not for saving her life, but for something I did that I didn't remember doing.
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He had delivered thousands of babies, diagnosed thousands of cancers, pronounced thousands of deaths. He thought he was ready to stop. But medicine had become so woven into who he was that retiring felt like losing his identity.
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Gross anatomy is where medical students learn that the dead are just bodies — inert, silent, teachable. But on her third week of dissection, something happened in the lab that made her question whether that was entirely true.
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I missed a diagnosis that could have killed my patient. She survived, but I didn't — not the version of me that thought being careful was enough, that thought competence was a shield against error. I became a different kind of physician after that day.
Public descriptions say the book draws on more than 200 physician interviews and presents 26 selected accounts.
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Public descriptions say the book draws on more than 200 physician interviews and presents 26 selected accounts involving end-of-life experiences, unexpected recoveries, faith, and other events the narrators found difficult to explain.
By Dr. Scott J. Kolbaba, MD. Check the retailer for current formats, pricing, and reader ratings.