IMPERFECT BALANCE: Behavioral Health Disorders & First Year Medical Students

By Richard Arroyo and Logan Noone

THE NARRATIVES SHARED IN THIS BOOK HIGHLIGHT THE LIVES OF TEN FIRST YEAR MEDICAL STUDENTS, EACH OF WHOM STRUGGLES AND CONTINUES TO STRUGGLE WITH A BEHAVIORAL HEALTH DISORDER. Medical school. We have dreamt of being here. We have exerted years of effort to be sitting in these seats. Yet the high-stress, high-stakes academic struggle can so easily aggravate and amplify our own emotional struggle. Why are some students capable of sailing the storm while others are drowning silently? How much control do we actually possess over the influences that make up our mind? The students in this first-year class exhibit a spectrum of both diagnosed and undiagnosed behavioral health disorders. What have they learned that has allowed them to succeed? There is an assumption that medical students are flawless and in perfect balance. This is untrue. Like medicine, we are inherently imperfect. But it doesn't stop us.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1092988955
• ISBN13: 9781092988957
• Release Date: April 2019
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 273 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.0" x 0.7" x 5.3"