Choosing Not to Die, When Doctor Becomes Patient - Dr. Rana Awdish

选择不死,当医生变得有耐心--拉娜·奥迪什医生

Good Life Project

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2018-02-26

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Dr. Rana Awdish wanted to be a doctor from her earliest memories, and worked to become an ICU physician. But, when she found herself 7-months pregnant, being admitted to the hospital spiraling into multiple organ failure, the near-death experience, followed by a two year medical odyssey would forever change her. Dr. Awdish's understanding of both what is was to be a patient, and how the relationship between doctor and patient could radically affect the experience and even outcome of a patient was transformative. This harrowing journey and her awakening to a profoundly different way to practice medicine is detailed beautifully in her memoir, In Shock. Dr. Awdish is now the Director of the Pulmonary Hypertension Program at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit and a Critical Care Physician. She was recently named Medical Director of Care Experience for the Health System and awarded the Speak-Up Hero award in 2014 for her work on improving communication, as well as the Critical Care Teaching Award in 2016. ------------- Have you discovered your Sparketype yet? Take the Sparketype Assessment™ now. IT’S FREE (https://sparketype.com/) and takes about 7-minutes to complete. At a minimum, it’ll open your eyes in a big way. It also just might change your life. If you enjoyed the show, please share it with a friend. Thank you to our super cool brand partners. If you like the show, please support them - they help make the podcast possible. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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  • I was unrecognizable to myself.

  • You know, in a course of 12 hours, I went from dinner with a friend to someone who had multi system organ failure, who was on life support and not expected to survive.

  • So today's guest was living her life, doing great work in the world as an ICU physician.

  • At seven months pregnant, she found herself out to dinner with a friend in excruciating pain.

  • What unfolded over the next 24 hours was horrifying.

  • She found herself whisked into emergency surgery, but then admitted really into the wrong part of the hospital.

  • That led to devastating circumstances and set in motion a two year medical and personal odyssey that would end up profoundly changing both her own life, her own physical wellbeing, and her take on what it means to be a physician, what it means to take good care of yourself, and what it really means also to be in service of your patients.

  • She's also summed up and really beautifully illuminated this entire journey in her new book, In Shock.

  • Doctor Rana Odish is my guest today.

  • Really excited to share this conversation with you.

  • So before we dive into today's beautiful conversation, super quick update.

  • In case you didn't catch it on the last Thursday episode last week, we're always working on exploring ways to bring you more of what you want and less of what you don't want.

  • So we've been looking to and listening to trends and realized that we love producing two shows a week, but it's been creating a bit of overwhelm for a lot of people, and we're all about ease, not overwhelm.

  • So with that, we made a decision to put our Thursday show on hiatus, at least for the spring.

  • And starting this week, I'll be sharing any longer sort of thought pieces as essays on various places around the interwebs.

  • And we'll be adding in a super short, literally three minute GLP news and tips for better living spot at the beginning of our Monday jams, where I'll just share short and sweet updates about what we're working on, fun adventures, many shout outs, cool discoveries or links, and that'll just be a super quick touch in the beginning of our Monday shows.

  • Now, speaking of which, in today's GLP quick news and tips for better living, as I record this, I'm camped out in a little Airbnb in Burlington, Vermont.

  • That's why the tone of the mic might sound a little different to you with my wife and daughter, and we are sneaking in a bit of soggy snowboarding.

  • So sad.

  • It's so warm here and tomorrow we'll be touring Burton's 10,000 square foot R and D and snowboard prototyping workshop.