No Apparent Distress, Rachel Pearson, MD
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No Apparent Distress
A Doctors Coming-of-Age on the Front Lines of American Medicine

Narrator: Rebecca Gibel

Unabridged: 8 hr 59 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/09/2017


Synopsis

In medical charts, the term N.A.D. (No Apparent Distress) is used for patients who appear stable. The phrase also aptly describes Americas medical system when it comes to treating the underprivileged. Medical students learn on the bodies of the poorand the poor suffer from their mistakes. Rachel Pearson confronted these harsh realities when she started medical school in Galveston, Texas. Pearson, herself from a working-class background, remains haunted by the suicide of a close friend, experiences firsthand the heartbreak of her own errors in a patients care, and witnesses the ruinous effects of a hurricane on a Texas towns medical system. In No Apparent Distress, she chronicles her experiences and the raging disparities in a system that favors the rich and the white. This is at once an indictment of American health care and a deeply moving tale of one doctors coming-of-age.

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