Kate Scannell

Death of the Good Doctor -- Lessons from the Heart of the AIDS Epidemic (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

Doctor Kate Scannell abandoned her academic career in 1985 expecting to enter an "ordinary" medical practice in Northern California. Instead, the thirty-two-year-old physician found herself assigned to a county hospital AIDS ward where much of the medicine she has studied over many difficult years was rendered irrelevant.

Working with AIDS patients, nearly all of whom are dying, Scannell discovers the inadequacy of the "good doctor" who battles illness to keep patients alive regardless of their suffering. By embracing her patients' unique needs and stories, Scannell reaches an expanded understanding of her patients and of herself as a physician.

Death of the Good Doctor richly chronicles the intimacy of Scannell's relationships with her patients through whom the vast complexities of the AIDS epidemic are uniquely focused. It is through these beautiful, often difficult, and sometimes humorous portraits that the woman and the physician discover each other.

FROM THE BACK COVER

"This haunting memoir is an important addition to the canon of AIDS literature. Scannell writes beautifully and with an insight that escapes most physicians." Abraham Verghese, author of My Own Country and Cutting for Stone

"Kate Scannell is the rare doctor who has been transformed by her patients. In this irresistible, informative, and enormously moving book, she tells us not only her own story, but theirs." Gloria Steinem

SAMPLE REVIEWS

"A remarkable book, part history, part memoir, that reads with the grace and eloquence of good fiction." Bay Area Reporter

"In an enormously moving, thoughtful and compassionate memoir, she recounts how she discarded her traditional medical training and learned how to rely on her own sensibilities...The individuals that she met on the ward, she writes, "shook me, stunned me, alarmed me, twisted me, righted me, tricked me, and amazed me." Their stories do the same for us, and some even make us laugh." Robert Armstrong, Minneapolis Star-Tribune

"[O]ne of the most startling and beautifully written books I've ever read from a doctor." Pat Holt, Northern California Independent Booksellers Association

"Most of the essays in this book transcend even the best of "Oprah's T.V. Book Moments."Lambda Book Report

"There has been much talk in this section of the magazine recently about the near uselessness of AIDS literature written by members of the medical establishment. ... Death of the Good Doctor by Kate Scannell, M.D., is a delightful exception. ... [It] is a surprisingly easy read; more like a short story collection with unifying threads of main characters and location." Arts and Understanding

"This is a rich collection of snapshots not only of people with AIDS but of the journey of their physician. Scannell's need to write the stories of her patients is also shadowed by her knowledge that, before she finished writing these stories, she herself had been diagnosed with cancer." Felice Aull, Medical Humanities, New York University

"Her storytelling style allows the reader to put a face on the epidemic and give meaning to the statistics, as they are introduced to several of Scannell's patients ..."Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care

Publication history Originally published in paperback, 1999 (Cleis Press). Rights were reverted to author in 2010 and reissued in electronic form; back in print 2012 with photographs added in 2018.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Word Haven Media INC
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Januar 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781468146172
• Artikelnr.: 50832415

Autorenporträt

Kate Scannell is a physician and author who lives, writes, and gardens in the San Francisco Bay Area. She is finally enjoying the focused time she's promised herself to write the medical mysteries she's longed to tell. Immortal Wounds-the first in her series involving crack internist Dr. Nora Kelly and colleagues at Oakland City Hospital-will be published in September, 2018.

Kate has published extensively in both lay and professional venues. She was a regular opinion columnist (2000-2014) for several Bay Area newspapers and their digital outlets, including The Oakland Tribune and The Contra Costa Times. Her columns explored the ethical and sociopolitical dimensions of modern medicine and health care.

In 1999, she published her memoir Death of the Good Doctor-Lessons from the Heart of the AIDS Epidemic (Cleis Press). The book relates her experiences serving as the medical director for one of the country's first hospital AIDS wards during the early HIV epidemic years (1985-1990) when most patients suffered quick deaths. Her memoir also recounts her coming-of-age as a woman physician during this unique time. After her book went out of print, she acquired its rights and published it in digital (2010) and book (2012) formats.

Kate subsequently published Flood Stage-A Novel, a collection of twenty interrelated stories about people living in a diverse rural community whose lives are threatened when torrential rains overfill the local river. When flood stage arrives and apocalyptic flooding ensues, residents of this tight-knit community must make swift and painful decisions. Do they stay or flee? What do they choose to carry away, what do they leave behind? In moments of urgent reckoning, their unique personal histories are acted out on center stage as a universal human drama unfolds.

Though taking early leave of her medical career, Kate loved medicine and patient care. She was board certified in Internal Medicine; Rheumatology; Geriatrics; and, Hospice and Palliative Medicine. She intends to stay close to these interests through her future writing.

She invites you to visit her website at: www.katescannellmd.com