- Taschenbuch: 296 Seiten
- Verlag: Univ of Pennsylvania Pr (24. April 2000)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 0812217330
- ISBN-13: 978-0812217339
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 2,1 x 1,4 x 0,2 cm
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As a physician with a Ph.D. in public policy, Heymann has had practical experience in the U.S. and Mexico. As a patient, she has epilepsy and has had Guillain-Barr{{‚}e}E syndrome, a major brain hemorrhage, and some minor problems. Her human and rational brief for better physician understanding of patients and the need for physician and patient to work together deals not with exceptional transgressions in this relationship but with daily, uncaring insults. She uses her own experiences as the main thread in her at times almost unbelievable account but also draws on friends and her own patients to make not a sensational assault on medical education and practice but an on-the-scene picture of what can go wrong, why it does, and what can be done to improve conditions. Heymann is a practical optimist who makes both general and specific recommendations worth the attention of every medical student starting junior year, every director of medical education, every library serving discussion groups, and every patient, future patient, and friend of a patient. William Beatty
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After graduating from medical school, Heymann was struck with a seizure and a brain tumor. This calamity is the basis for a harrowing but ultimately riveting medical tale in which Heymann was both a patient and a doctor. A Harvard faculty member, MacArthur Fellow, wife, and mother of two children, Heymann recounts how she juggled some of these projects simultaneously while struggling with severe neurological problems and completing her pediatric medical residency. From her patient's perspective, Heymann learned firsthand of shortcomings in the medical establishment. Consequently, she argues strongly for the introduction into medical practice of a new spirit in which patients and their families are truly included as equal partners in their own healthcare. She also discusses her recent work with Guatemalan refugees, which demonstrates her social conscience but clouds the main theme of her work. Heymann is best when describing her role as patient and the medical outcomes of her case. For both general and informed readers.
James Swanton, Albert Einstein Coll. of Medicine, New York
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James Swanton, Albert Einstein Coll. of Medicine, New York
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc. -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine vergriffene oder nicht verfügbare Ausgabe dieses Titels.
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IN JUNE 1989, I graduated from both Harvard Medical School and the Kennedy School of Government. Lesen Sie die erste Seite
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Medicine from the inside, and it's not pretty
6. November 2003
Format:Gebundene Ausgabe
Despite its bland title this is a harrowing expose of the relationship between doctors, hospitals and patients. It's also a moving personal story about catastrophe, agonizing recovery and adjustment.
A week after graduating with honors from Harvard Medical School, Heymann suffered a severe seizure and was rushed to the emergency room. Awakening with no memory of the event, she found her arms and legs strapped to a hard slab. Unable to move, surrounded by strangers, she was terrified and kept calling for her husband, wondering what "they" had done to him. No one answered her cries.
And this was only the beginning. As Heymann describes the nightmare of awaiting diagnosis, clinging to the stoicism she learned as a medical student - good patients are quiet patients - she begins to understand that hospitals are constructed around the convenience of the professionals. She reflects on the small things that might ease a patient's anxiety - knowledge mostly. Explanations about what is happening and what they can expect of themselves on release.
Heymann had bled into her brain and surgery was recommended. The operation was botched, through medical oversight, but Heymann's anger about this is less than her anger at the lies, evasions and brush-offs which follow. After numerous conflicting reports, her doctor tells her the hemangioma had all been removed. But one of the books most chilling passages comes later. The pathologist's study concluded that her hemangioma had not been removed. Her doctor never informed her of this report (she does not say how she learned of it).
Discharged after surgery, Heymann is so weak that watching television is too taxing and caring for her toddler son is impossible. No one was prepared for the sort of care she would need. And Heymann herself refuses to compromise her ambitions. She believes strongly that meaning in life comes from helping others. She and her husband (also a doctor) had always intended to work in a clinic in a third world country. They also want a second child.
So she embarks on her grueling internship as soon as possible, terrified of the seizures which may wreck her career. Numerous heart-tugging case histories are interspersed with her own halting progress. Explaining procedures and home care to her patients, she shows how the frightened "difficult" patients are calmed and easier to treat when given a modicum of understanding.
This well-written, moving and deeply scary memoir should be widely read but probably won't be. In a letter Heymann wrote to the New England Journal of Medicine protesting prejudice against people with seizures she described herself as "a physician who has both treated patients with seizures and lived with seizures." The Journal removed only four words. "They would not print that I had lived with seizures, only that I had treated others."
Read this book, doctor or patient.
29. Dezember 2008
Format:Taschenbuch
My neurologist gave me his copy of this book to read before I had brain surgery 13 years ago. He was a classmate of Dr. Heymann at Harvard Medical School, and informed me that the book is required reading for medical students at Harvard.
The story begins when Dr. Heymann experiences a seizure just after graduating from Medical School at Harvard. Despite her own medical training, she finds herself in a completely new world as she and her husband, also a doctor, struggle to find out what has happened to her. As a patient, she finds out what it means to be kept in the dark about your condition.
Not only does she offer her well written personal story of frustration and perserverance, but she provides top notch advice to patients and doctors on how to effectively work together in the best interest of the patient.
I found it to be extremely helpful as someone diagnosed with epilepsy myself who was considering seizure surgery. Now, thirteen years later, I can apply the same principals to the doctors with whom I must cooperate because I now have cancer. The principal of "Equal Partners" is crucial to establishing an effective course of action in any health care crisis.
The story begins when Dr. Heymann experiences a seizure just after graduating from Medical School at Harvard. Despite her own medical training, she finds herself in a completely new world as she and her husband, also a doctor, struggle to find out what has happened to her. As a patient, she finds out what it means to be kept in the dark about your condition.
Not only does she offer her well written personal story of frustration and perserverance, but she provides top notch advice to patients and doctors on how to effectively work together in the best interest of the patient.
I found it to be extremely helpful as someone diagnosed with epilepsy myself who was considering seizure surgery. Now, thirteen years later, I can apply the same principals to the doctors with whom I must cooperate because I now have cancer. The principal of "Equal Partners" is crucial to establishing an effective course of action in any health care crisis.
A must read for humanity
29. Januar 2007
Format:Taschenbuch
Anyone who uses the American health care system or works in it should read this book. This story of a Harvard doctor with a brain tumor shows why there is so much needless suffering within our health care system. It's not going to start getting better unless we all look at the problem and do our part to fix it.
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