Choosing Not to Die, When Doctor Becomes Patient - Dr. Rana Awdish
Good Life Project
Jonathan Fields / Acast
4.5 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 26 February 2018
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Dr. Rana Awdish wanted to be a doctor from her earliest memories, and worked to become an ICU physician. But, when she found herself 7-months pregnant, being admitted to the hospital spiraling into multiple organ failure, the near-death experience, followed by a two year medical odyssey would forever change her.
Dr. Awdish's understanding of both what is was to be a patient, and how the relationship between doctor and patient could radically affect the experience and even outcome of a patient was transformative. This harrowing journey and her awakening to a profoundly different way to practice medicine is detailed beautifully in her memoir, In Shock.
Dr. Awdish is now the Director of the Pulmonary Hypertension Program at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit and a Critical Care Physician. She was recently named Medical Director of Care Experience for the Health System and awarded the Speak-Up Hero award in 2014 for her work on improving communication, as well as the Critical Care Teaching Award in 2016.
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| 0:54.0 | You know, in a course of 12 hours, I went from dinner with a friend to |
| 0:59.3 | someone who had multi-system organ failure who was on life support and not expected to survive. |
| 1:11.1 | So today's guest was living her life, doing great work in the world as an ICU physician. |
| 1:16.8 | At seven months pregnant, she found herself out to dinner with a friend, |
| 1:20.8 | an excruciating pain. |
| 1:22.2 | What unfolded over the next 24 hours was horrifying. |
| 1:27.0 | She found herself whisked into emergency surgery, but then admitted, |
| 1:32.3 | really into the wrong part of the hospital, that led to devastating circumstances, |
| 1:37.2 | and set a motion, a two-year medical and personal odyssey that would end up profoundly changing |
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