The Daily Routine of a Doctor

By: Bradley, Stephan

In Patients who heal, doctor Julia Rocha tells her daily life in the Brazilian Unified Health System, the SUS, where she has worked for ten years, since she graduated. The texts of Patients who heal present what Julia - a black woman, family and community doctor, mother and singer - experienced while on duty at the hospital, in her office at the Basic Health Unit, at the UPA or when visiting patients at home. And, in doing so, they draw a portrait of a peripheral Brazil, which has had a bad time since forever. At the same time, they reveal what is universal, sensitive, in the human.
In the book, we see how health is much more than not being sick: it is having the right to work, housing, food, education, leisure and other components of the welfare state guaranteed. But how to provide rights to people who are in a situation of social vulnerability? How to enforce the articles of the Constitution that establish universal and equal access to health? Health is everyone's right and a duty of the State.
The SUS, created in 1986, is the result of struggles by social movements and encompasses assistance policies and programs to promote health, democracy and citizenship for all Brazilians, free of charge. It is considered one of the biggest and best public health systems in the world. Thanks to SUS and its network of professionals dedicated to the humanized care of patients, we have the chance to meet Dr. Julia and the patient characters in this book. Stories like those of Juliana and Juraci, who suffered from one of the worst diseases that society could transmit, racism and slavery; of Ruth, who was looking for a sleeping pill and left with a diagnosis of oppression due to machismo. And also like the woman who wanted a solution to decrease sexual desire and found she was healthy; and Andr?, who almost died and found love.
Patients Who Heal is a book to be moved, to laugh. It's fun and it's food for the fight. A book for people who feel sorry for injustice and who insist on changing the world.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0BGZDV9RG
• ISBN13: 9798355711214
• Release Date: October 2022
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 172 Pages
• Weight: 0.91 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.5" x 11.0"