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Dottoressa

An American Doctor in Rome

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Dottoressa

By: Susan Levenstein
Narrated by: Susan Levenstein
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About this listen

After completing her medical training in New York, Susan Levenstein set off for a one-year adventure in Rome. Forty years later, she is still practicing medicine in the eternal city.

In Dottoressa: An American Doctor in Rome, Levenstein writes, with love and exasperation, about navigating her career through the renowned Italian tangle of brilliance and ineptitude, sexism and tolerance, rigidity and chaos. Part memoir starting with her epic quest for an Italian medical license and part portrait of Italy from a unique point of view, Dottoressa is packed with vignettes that illuminate the national differences in character, lifestyle, health, and health care between her two countries. Levenstein covers everything from hookup culture to neighborhood madmen, Italian hands-off medical training, bidets, the ironies of expatriation, and why Italians always pay their doctor’s bills.

©2019 Susan Levenstein (P)2021 Susan Levenstein Medical Professionals & Academics Women Italy Health Care Rome

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The author’s voice is warm, vital and enchanting - pulls me in like sweet deep wine! Reminds me of what it feels like to listen to Maya Angelou read (another of my favourite voices). The book is very entertaining and full of interesting insights into Italian life as well as insights into the life of a doctor.

Dottoressa holds you wonderfully!

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