The author, who was 29 weeks pregnant, drove herself to the hospital after suffering from severe pains.
The author started experiencing intense abdominal pains one night out of the blue, and her symptoms did not go away after she gave birth to her daughter. It is a merciful truth that no one is capable of summoning the intense pain of an experience they’ve gone through. Insights from Chapter 12 Insights from Chapter 1Įvery experience becomes less painful and more bearable in retrospect. Shatteringly personal yet wholly universal, it is both a brave roadmap for anyone navigating illness and a call to arms for doctors to see each patient not as a diagnosis but as a human being.Insights on Rana Awdish's In Shock Contents In Shock is Rana Awdish's searing account of her extraordinary journey from doctor to patient, during which she sees for the first time the dysfunction of her profession’s disconnection from patients and the flaws in her own past practice as a doctor. She spent months fighting for her life in her own hospital, enduring a series of organ failures and multiple major surgeries.Įvery step of the way, Awdish was faced with something even more unexpected and shocking than her battle to survive: her fellow doctors’ inability to see and acknowledge the pain of loss and human suffering, the result of a self-protective barrier hard-wired in medical training.
her writing style is often nothing short of beautiful - evocative and emotional.' Adam Kay, ObserverĪt seven months pregnant, intensive care doctor Rana Awdish suffered a catastrophic medical event, haemorrhaging nearly all of her blood volume and losing her unborn first child. 'I read the first chapters at such a pace that I almost had to remind myself to breathe.' Sunday Times
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