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No Apparent Distress
- A Doctor’s Coming-of-Age on the Front Lines of American Medicine
- Narrated by: Rebecca Gibel
- Length: 8 hrs and 59 mins
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Summary
In medical charts, the term "N.A.D." (No Apparent Distress) is used for patients who appear stable. The phrase also aptly describes America's medical system when it comes to treating the underprivileged. Medical students learn on the bodies of the poor - and the poor suffer from their mistakes.
Rachel Pearson confronted these harsh realities when she started medical school in Galveston, Texas. Pearson, herself from a working-class background, remains haunted by the suicide of a close friend, experiences firsthand the heartbreak of her own errors in a patient's care, and witnesses the ruinous effects of a hurricane on a Texas town's medical system. In No Apparent Distress, she chronicles her experiences and the raging disparities in a system that favors the rich and the white. This is at once an indictment of American health care and a deeply moving tale of one doctor's coming-of-age.
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- Mnd
- 06-10-21
Excellent read
Absolutely brillianf read. Incredibly honest and humble writer. I thoroughly enjoyed this book. Laughed, cried and it certainly gave me plenty lf food for thought.
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- Miss N Madders
- 22-05-23
He said ….. she said
Didn’t finish this, sounded a good book but the narration is terrible, every sentence has ‘he said or she said’ on the end.
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- Paul Trigg
- 25-01-22
A students frontline experience in America
I didn't want to miss a word of it. As an English woman who has just been to an NHS hospital for a check up without paying except in taxes I found the book a real education.
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- Lexy
- 27-10-22
Shocking
Living in the UK where we have the NHS this book is absolutely shocking. How in the land of the free and one of the richest countries in the world can people die because they don’t have medical insurance? This book is very frustrating, detailing how medical students volunteered at a free clinic to treat the uninsured. However there were tests and treatments that the clinic just couldn’t give. There are so many stories if patients with cancer who just couldn’t get the treatment they needed because they were uninsured. Absolutely shocking that the USA treats its people like this!
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- Helen
- 28-09-21
Medicine in the USA
Sufficiently compelling account of a doctor's training & early experience in the US healthcare system. The differentials in treatment for the insured, the uninsured & by racial demographic in 'real' emergency rooms & county hospitals.
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- Nicky Miles
- 29-03-22
HE SAID! SHE ASKED!
I enjoyed this book, an interesting insight into American healthcare or lack of. What I found rather jarring were the unnecessary “he said” “she asked”s, clearly an add on. Did the production team not have faith in the listener’s ability to differentiate who is talking? When a cheerful “he said” comes in the middle of a sensitive topic you do wonder why they did it.
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- Pará Lady
- 28-08-22
Great Story Poor Writing
The story itself is lovely. However, the book needed better editing. The amount of ‘he said’ and ‘she said’ was beyond awful.
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- Angela Armstrong
- 10-09-22
good book
struggled to finish looking for something else such as my new book choice today 10th
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- Jacqui L
- 17-09-21
Narrator is terrible
This might have been a good book if it weren’t for the narrator!
She talks so fast and at times it’s comical almost like a robot.
I gave up at chapter 4!
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- K
- 30-04-22
Narration annoying
Overall narration is not good in my opinion. While some of the stories were interesting, the ‘he said’, ‘I said’ becomes very annoying and spoilt the listening experience immensely. It is like the story is being read and then ‘he said’, ‘I said’ has been inserted at the end of the sentence, in a totally different tone of voice instead of flowing.
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