What Patients Taught Me: A Medical Student's Journey

By Audrey Young

A young doctor writes frankly of her medical training in small rural communities around the world, reflecting on the important lessons she learned along the way
 
Do sleek high-tech hospitals teach more about medicine and less about humanity? Do doctors ever lose their tolerance for suffering? With sensitive observation and graceful prose, this stunning book explores some of these difficult and deeply personal questions, revealing the highs and lows of being a physician in training.
 
Author Audrey Young was just 23-years-old when she took care of her first dying patient. In What Patients Taught Me, she writes of this life-altering experience and of the other struggles she faced in her journey to become a good doctor—from exhausting 36-hour shifts to a perilous rescue mission in an Eskimo village. As she travels to small rural communities throughout the world, she attends to terminal illness, AIDS, tuberculosis, and premature birth, coming face-to-face with mortality and the medical, personal, and socioeconomic dilemmas of her patients.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
• Release date: Sep 29, 2009
• ISBN: 9781570616587

Audrey Young

The Trust Protector is Audrey Young's first novel. She is a practicing attorney in Chicago and Northbrook. She has written for the New York Times, the International Herald Tribune, Vogue and the Durham Morning Herald. The Trust Protector is both a suspenseful legal drama, as well as a beguiling romance.