These Vital Signs, Sayed Tabatabai
These Vital Signs, Sayed Tabatabai
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These Vital Signs
A Doctor's Notes on Life and Loss in Tweets

Author: Sayed Tabatabai

Narrator: Christopher Salazar

Unabridged: 3 hr 20 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 05/16/2023

Synopsis

A doctor reflects on his profession and his experience with patients in this brilliant essay collection that expands on his wildly popular Twitter poems.In medicine, every patient presents with a story. “Once upon a time I was well, and then . . . ” These patient narratives are the beating heart of medicine; through stories we strive to communicate, to understand, to empathize, and perhaps find healing.These Vital Signs is a poignant series of essays—deeply personal stories—inspired by nephrologist Sayed Tabatabai’s medical experience and based on a series of poems he posted on Twitter that began going viral at the height of the Covid pandemic. Each short work is a poignant glimpse into the ever-changing field of medicine and the special relationship between patients and their doctor. In each, Tabatabai beautifully evokes the emotional tension between life and death, wellness and disease, uncertainty and hope, in a unique and unforgettable way.Exploring themes of illness, dying, grief, and joy, universal in its reach, These Vital Signs tells stories both remarkable and utterly ordinary of a doctor and the patients who have shaped him.

About Sayed Tabatabai

Sayed Tabatabai is a nephrologist and a writer. He shares most of his work as @TheRealDoctorT with his large audience on Twitter, and his writing has appeared in Medium, Physicians Weekly, and the Wall Street Journal, and on NPR. He lives in San Antonio.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Vignesh on October 03, 2023

Where "Tweetistry" becomes Poetry There's a reason Dr. T has nearly 75K followers on Twitter. Folks follow him for his incredibly uncanny ability to write stories that we can all connect with. It doesn't matter at all whether or not you work in healthcare, this is a must read. While reading this book......more

Goodreads review by Samya on June 24, 2024

I absolutely loved this book. My favourite chapter was "Where Hearts Beat Strongly". I have been following Dr. ST on Twitter, and that is where I got to know about his book. He has written the book so well, I am sure I will be reaching for it again in the future.......more

Goodreads review by Jill on May 18, 2023

This book. Whew. I tried not to read it so fast (2 days), but it was impossible. It’s beautiful. It’s 💔 It’s full of humanity. It’s like a hug. Everyone should read it.......more

Goodreads review by Becky on May 19, 2024

This so perfectly encapsulates what it feels like to be in medicine post covid. “I know so much. I know nothing.” I will definitely come back to this.......more

Goodreads review by Rebekah on May 20, 2023

Heartbreakingly healing This book is a beautiful depiction of what it’s like to be in medicine. Emotions put into words. As an NP student under Dr T as the pandemic was making its debut, it makes me appreciate the lessons learned so much more and hold onto them harder. A must read.......more

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