#NephJC Summer Book Club Chat
Tuesday Aug 24 at 9 pm Eastern
In Shock
Dr. Rana Awdish (@RanaAwdish)
Glowing review by Alyssa Brown at Association of Women Surgeons
A less generous review by Adam Kay in The Guardian
Grand Round presentation at University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center and Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Department of Medicine on “In Shock” by Dr. Awdish.
In the summer of 2015 NephJC was just over a year old and I wanted to see how far we could bend the model. Could we go beyond a single manuscript and get the community to read a book. That year we undertook Atul Gawande's Being Mortal and it was a great success. Every year since then we have chosen and discussed a summer book to read. Here is the collection of NephJC books, pick anyone any you will learn something:
2019 Andrew Bomback’s Doctor (Object Lessons)
2018 Siddhartha Mukherjee's Laws of Medicine, Field Notes from an Uncertain Science
2017 Vanessa Grubb's Hundreds of Interlaced Fingers.
2016 Eric Topol's The Patient Will See You Now
2015 Atul Gawande's Being Mortal
This year we are reading Rana Awdish’s In Shock, a book that describes a critical care docs descent from health into acute and then to recovery and then to recurrent acute illness. While the book recounts her illness it is really about how doctors see and relate and connect to their patients. As Dr. Awdish says in her introduction, in order to learn how to be empathic she had to die.
