My Leaky Body: Tales from the Gurney - Devaney, Julie
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Her most vulnerable moment spawned a battle for change. In and out of emergency rooms, Julie Devaney is poked and prodded, bearing the helplessness and chilling indignities of "hospital purgatory." Part memoir, part love story, part revolutionary manifesto, this raw, harrowing, often gruesomely funny tale recounts Devaney's journey through hospitals and doctors' offices. Based on her popular one-woman show, My Leaky Body lays bare the deficiencies in health care, creating a road map for patients and for all those who want to transform the system.

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Her most vulnerable moment spawned a battle for change. In and out of emergency rooms, Julie Devaney is poked and prodded, bearing the helplessness and chilling indignities of "hospital purgatory." Part memoir, part love story, part revolutionary manifesto, this raw, harrowing, often gruesomely funny tale recounts Devaney's journey through hospitals and doctors' offices. Based on her popular one-woman show, My Leaky Body lays bare the deficiencies in health care, creating a road map for patients and for all those who want to transform the system.
Autorenporträt
Julie Devaney is a patient-expert in the fields of disability rights advocacy and health care delivery. She is the author of the critically acclaimed show and educational workshop series My Leaky Body, which she has performed at medical schools, nursing conferences, disability and women's studies conferences, arts festivals, and theatres throughout Canada, in the US, and the UK, including a successful run at Theatre Passe Muraille in Toronto.