Rana Awdish is an intensive care doctor and the director of the Pulmonary Hypertension Programme at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit. Dr Awdish's mandate is to improve the patient experience across the US health system and speak on patient advocacy at healthcare venues across the country. She was awarded the Critical Care Teaching Award in 2016 and, in 2017, the Press Ganey Physician of the Year Award and The Schwartz Center's National Compassionate Caregiver Award.
Outstanding... What marks it out is not the scale or urgency of the
trauma, although I read the first chapters at such a pace that I
almost had to remind myself to breathe. It is the writing. It
sparks and crackles with a dark energy... The writing is not just
intense, but intelligent... In Shock stands above other patient
memoirs.
*The Sunday Times*
Tense, powerful and gripping... her writing style is often nothing
short of beautiful - evocative and emotional.
*The Observer*
In Shock is both an enthralling page-turner and a haunting call to
arms for the medical profession to practice with greater kindness,
compassion and humility. Awdish captures beautifully how and why
doctors, against our best selves, can lose sight of our patients in
furious pursuit of the diagnosis, the save, the cure. Anyone –
doctor or otherwise – whose life has been touched by illness will
be transfixed by this deeply moving tale of catastrophic illness
and everything it teaches us.
*Rachel Clarke, author of Your Life in My Hands: A Junior
Doctor's Story*
Awdish looks at the way we practice medicine with a combination of
love and outrage. She writes beautifully about the secret, shameful
feelings many doctors feel they have to hide and she shows us how
we might do better. After reading this book, I feel like a
different doctor.
*Gabriel Weston, author of Direct Red: A Surgeon's Story*
A brave, powerful memoir about what it is like to be both a doctor
and a patient... There is a widsom that literally comes from
suffering.
*The Times*
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