Published in 2004
240 pages
Audrey Young, MD, is a board-certified internal medicine physician and Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of Washington. She splits time between her hospital medicine practice and health care for the homeless. She is author of What Patients Taught Me: A Medical Student’s Journey, published in 2004 and The House of Hope and Fear: Life in a Big City Hospital, published by Sasquatch Books in 2009 and updated and re-released in 2019. She lives in Seattle with her family.
What is this book about?
Do sleek high-tech hospitals teach more about medicine and less about humanity? Do doctors ever lose their tolerance for suffering? With sensitive observation and graceful prose, this book explores some of the difficult and deeply personal questions a 23-year-old doctor confronts with her very first dying patient, and continues to struggle with as she strives to become a good doctor. In her travels, the doctor attends to terminal illness, AIDS, tuberculosis, and premature birth in small rural communities throughout the world.
