Shatteringly personal yet wholly universal, it is both a brave road map for anyone navigating illness and a call to arms for doctors to see each patient not as a diagnosis but as a human being. In Shock is Rana Awdish's searing account of her extraordinary journey from doctor to patient, during which she saw for the first time the dysfunction of her profession’s disconnection from patients and the flaws in her own past practice as a doctor. Fortunately, few have encountered illness to the extent of ITU physician Rana Awdish.

She spent months fighting for her life in her own hospital, enduring a series of organ failures and multiple major surgeries.Įvery step of the way, Awdish was faced with something even more unexpected and shocking than her battle to survive: her fellow doctors’ inability to see and acknowledge the pain of loss and human suffering, the result of a self-protective barrier hardwired in medical training. Every doctor has been on the receiving end of medical treatment. Rana Awdish, contact Executive Speakers Bureau at 901.754.9404. She is a critical care physician and faculty member of Wayne State University School of Medicine in Detroit, Michigan. Random House presents the audiobook edition of In Shock by Dr Rana Awdish, read by the author and Teri Schnaubelt.Īt seven months pregnant, intensive care doctor Rana Awdish suffered a catastrophic medical event, haemorrhaging nearly all of her blood volume and losing her unborn first child. Rana Awdish, MD, FCCP is the author of In Shock, a memoir based on her own critical illness. Dr.Awdish’s book was also deeply personal to me because while I have never been in critical condition I have had many a horror filled memory of doctors.

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