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No Apparent Distress

A Doctor’s Coming-of-Age on the Front Lines of American Medicine

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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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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.

Medicine in the USA

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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.

HE SAID! SHE ASKED!

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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.

Excellent read

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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.

A students frontline experience in America

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Didn’t finish this, sounded a good book but the narration is terrible, every sentence has ‘he said or she said’ on the end.

He said ….. she said

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