{"product_id":"what-patients-taught-me-a-medical-students-journey-9781570615276","title":"What Patients Taught Me: A Medical Student's Journey","description":"\u003cb\u003eA young doctor writes frankly of her medical training in small rural communities around the world, reflecting on the important lessons she learned along the way\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDo 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 stunning book explores some of these difficult and deeply personal questions, revealing the highs and lows of being a physician in training. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAuthor Audrey Young was just 23-years-old when she took care of her first dying patient. In \u003ci\u003eWhat Patients Taught Me\u003c\/i\u003e, she writes of this life-altering experience and of the other struggles she faced in her journey to become a good doctor--from exhausting 36-hour shifts to a perilous rescue mission in an Eskimo village. As she travels to small rural communities throughout the world, she attends to terminal illness, AIDS, tuberculosis, and premature birth, coming face-to-face with mortality and the medical, personal, and socioeconomic dilemmas of her patients.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Sasquatch Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/31\/2007\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781570615276\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.62lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.54h x 5.56w x 0.59d","brand":"Audrey Young","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43112095776949,"sku":"9781570615276","price":16.11,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_a2ffa06e-328b-4423-88c4-445681b05d41.jpg?v=1693928591","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/what-patients-taught-me-a-medical-students-journey-9781570615276","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}