![]() In Shock is about medicine’s broken telephone. It is a town we drive through on a journey home, but not a place to stop and linger.” What Awdish distills from her experience is both poignant and pragmatic. It is a narrative not looking purely outwards, but also in. True to its intention, it avoids the traditional stiff-upper-lip clinical retelling, and allows for range of emotions experienced by the critically ill individual. ![]() In Shock is definitively part-memoir, succinctly conveying the many complexities of Awdish’s illness and survival. She shares almost “crossing over”-esque insights into how and why medicine is failing its patients, as well as its doctors. In her narrative, Awdish recounts the experience of severe illness and near-death on the background of being a physician herself. “If empathy is the ability to take the perspective of another and feel with them, then, at its best, the practice of medicine is a focused, scientific form of empathy.”įor the past few days I’ve been devouring In Shock in every spare moment I could find. ![]()
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