Awdish beautifully writes about her experience – the pain of loss, the frustration of being a patient, and the opportunity for our health care providers to step outside of their roles of being fixers and really connecting to their patients. In an instant, in a place where she was normally providing care, she was now the patient.

That role was reversed at the end of her medical training when she was pregnant with her first child and experienced multiple organ failure. As a pulmonologist at Henry Ford Health System in Detroit, MI, she was responsible for overseeing her patients and their care.

I bought her book to learn more about her experience – it does not disappoint.ĭr. Her desire to make empathy and communication just as important in the exam room as tests and diagnosis was intriguing. The story she told on stage was so compelling and touching. Awdish speak at a conference in the summer of 2019. To see if you qualify, get your free quote today at /goodlife.I had the priviledge of hearing Dr.

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She was recently named Medical Director of Care Experience for the Health System and awarded the Speak-Up Hero award in 2014 for her work on improving communication, as well as the Critical Care Teaching Award in 2016. Awdish is now the Director of the Pulmonary Hypertension Program at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit and a Critical Care Physician. Awdish’s understanding of both what it was to be a patient, and how the relationship between doctor and patient could radically affect the experience and even outcome of a patient was transformative. This harrowing journey and her awakening to a profoundly different way to practice medicine are detailed beautifully in her memoir, In Shock.ĭr. But, when she found herself 7-months pregnant, being admitted to the hospital spiraling into multiple organ failure, the near-death experience, followed by a two-year medical odyssey would forever change her.ĭr.

Rana Awdish wanted to be a doctor from her earliest memories, and worked to become an ICU physician.

In Shock by Rana Awdish