"A narrative of remarkable vividness, sobriety, clarity, and
balance."--Oliver Sacks "I do not say this lightly. This book
should be read by everyone in medicine: students, residents,
physicians, and insurers."--Daniel D. Federman, Harvard Medical
School "Jody Heymann affirms the power of stories, when written as
beautifully as these, to instruct and to move. At the same time,
"Equal Partners" speaks directly and clearly to a debate previously
conducted in a jargon that is blessedly absent from this fine
book."--Ethan Canin ""Equal Partners" is a narrative of remarkable
vividness, sobriety, clarity, and balance. Jody Heymann has plumbed
patienthood to its depths, and has reentered medicine as a deep
listener to patients and their needs, and as an advocate for a
medicine which does not infantilize but recognizes individuality
and autonomy, and makes patients equal partners with their
physicians."--Oliver Sacks One week after graduating with honors
from Harvard Medical School, Jody Heymann woke up in an emergency
room with no memory of how she got there, and, within hours, was
turned from physician into patient. The hospitalization and brain
surgery that followed taught her more about the practice of
medicine in America than all her years of schooling. Her deeply
disturbing conclusion: patients all too often occupy the bottom
rung of the ladder, with their legs tied to prevent them from
climbing. Heymann's experiences as a patient convinced her to work
toward a new, more compassionate spirit of medicine--one in which
physicians and patients are equal partners. Jody Heymann is
Director of Policy at the Harvard University Center for Society and
Health, Associate Professor of Health and Social Behavior at the
Harvard School of Public Health, and Assistant Professor of Social
Medicine at Harvard Medical School.
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