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

by Rachel Pearson

Book Overview

No Apparent Distress begins with a mistake made by a white medical student that may have hastened the death of a working-class black man who sought care in a student-run clinic. Haunted by this error, the author--herself from a working-class background--delves into the stories and politics of a medical training system in which students learn on the bodies of the poor. Part confession, part family history, No Apparent Distress is at once an indictment...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393355853
• ISBN13: 9780393355857
• Release Date: July 2018
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.4" x 8.2"

Customer Reviews

This book needs to be read!!!

I am about to start my last semester of nursing school, and this was one of my summer reads. It was an incredibly honest, heart-breaking, eye-opening book that I think everyone in the medical field should read.