Rachel Pearson's No Apparent Distress: A Doctor’s Coming-of-Age on the Front Lines of American Medicine

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/292278 to listen full audiobooks. Title: No Apparent Distress: A Doctor’s Coming-of-Age on the Front Lines of American Medicine Author: Rachel Pearson Narrator: Rebecca Gibel Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 59 minutes Release date: May 9, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 1 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: A brutally frank memoir about doctors and patients in a health care system that puts the poor at risk 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.