Shatteringly personal, and yet wholly universal, she offers a brave roadmap for anyone navigating illness. As she finds herself up against the same self-protective partitions she was trained to construct as a medical student and physician, she artfully illuminates the dysfunction of disconnection. Using her exceptional recall, Awdish fashions an elegant, yet urgent call to action. She also achieves, through unflinching presence, a crystalline vision of a new and better possibility. She comes to understand the fatal flaws in her profession and in her own past actions as a physician. The author demonstrates through engaging narrative and laser-sharp wit how the unbearable is borne. Hauntingly perceptive and beautifully written, it allows the reader to transform alongside her, and watch what she discovers in our carefully cultivated, yet often misguided standard of care. This transposition, coincidentally timed at the end of her medical training, instantly lays bare the vast chasm between the conventional practice of medicine and the stark reality of the prostrate patient. In Shock is a riveting first-hand account from a young critical care physician, who in the passage of a moment is transfigured into a dying patient. My Journey from Doctor to Patient―What I Learned about Modern Medicine's Inhumanity
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