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Stress Test: A Memoir

Stress Test: A Memoir

White Drew, Kay

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Publisher Price: $35.99

ISBN10: 1627205225
ISBN13: 9781627205221
Publisher: Apprentice House
Published: Jun 4 2024
Pages: 348
Weight: 1.21
Height: 0.81 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

This memoir of medical training in the 1970s, Stress Test, is particularly timely after the Dobbs decision, when the rights that underpin a woman's ability to participate fully in professional and public life are under attack. The story takes the reader through a five-year crucible, from the first day of medical school through the last day of an internship year in pediatrics and from the gross anatomy lab to the neonatal intensive care unit. Unveiling the cadaver in the first days of medical school while her mother lay dying on an oncology ward; the excitement of making difficult diagnoses and the terror and tragedy of disastrous mistakes; the joy of connecting with patients and the heartbreak of losing them-it's all here. Women comprised less than a fifth of the author's medical school class, so the scourge of sexism riddles the narrative. And as a white woman in the largely Black urban environment of West Baltimore, barely a decade after the Civil Rights movement and long before Black Lives Matter, she bore witness throughout her training to the human cost of racism.

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