Healing

When a Nurse Becomes a Patient

Narrated by Abby Craden
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Pub Date 12 Apr 2022 | Archive Date Not set

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“Deeply moving.” —Damon Tweedy, New York Times bestselling author of Black Man in a White Coat

New York Times bestselling author Theresa Brown tells a poignant, powerful, and intensely personal story about breast cancer. She brings us along with her from the mammogram that would change her life through her diagnosis, treatment, and recovery. Despite her training and years of experience as an oncology and hospice nurse, she finds herself continually surprised by the lack of compassion in the medical maze—just as so many of us have. Why is she expected to wait over a long weekend to hear the results of her cancer tests if they are ready? Where is the empathy from caregivers? Why is she so often left in the dark about procedures and treatments? At times she’s mad at herself for not speaking up and asking for what she needs but knows that being labeled a “difficult” patient could mean she gets worse care. 

 As she did in her book The Shift, Brown draws us into her work with the unforgettable details of her daily life—the needles, the chemo drugs, the rubber gloves, the frustrated patients—but from her new perch as a patient, she also takes a look back with rare candor at some of her own cases as a nurse and considers what she didn’t know then and what she could have done better. 

 A must-read for fans of Atul Gawande’s Being Mortal, Suleika Jaouad’s Between Two Kingdoms, and all of us who have tried to find healing through our health-care system.

“Deeply moving.” —Damon Tweedy, New York Times bestselling author of Black Man in a White Coat

New York Times bestselling author Theresa Brown tells a poignant, powerful, and intensely personal story...


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DURATION 6 Hours, 28 Seconds

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What an inspirational read.

To be honest this has always been one of my greatest fears, to go from treating people to being treated. The one thing you aren’t taught in school is how to be a patient and how to deal with that role reversal.

This is my first time reading a book by Theresa Brown and I am now hooked. She really knows how to captivate an audience by sharing her experience. I truly appreciate her calling out the health care system for the lack of empathy that is present in the system.

I highly recommend this book to anyone that wants to hear and learn about the health care system from another perspective.

Thank You to Theresa Brown and Workman Audio, for the audio-digital ARC provided through NetGalley in exchange for an honest review!

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