検索キーワード： 制作 "Audible Studios" 医師・患者

La capacità dei medici di ascoltare e rispettare i malati nel momento della loro sofferenza è un'arte difficile da insegnare e il suo apprendimento richiede più tempo e denaro rispetto alla padronanza della tecnica. Oggi, l'abuso della tecnologia, la corsa al progresso, il superspecialismo, la competizione rischiano di privare i medici dell'empatia verso i pazienti. Quando questa comunicazione fallisce, l'intero sistema di cura entra in crisi: una crisi profonda e radicale, che la medicina è chiamata a risolvere.

At a time when access to health care in the United States is being widely debated, Nortin Hadler argues that an even more important issue is being overlooked. Although necessary health care should be available to all who need it, he says, the current health-care debate assumes that everyone requires massive amounts of expensive care to stay healthy. Hadler urges that before we commit to paying for whatever pharmaceutical companies and the medical establishment tell us we need, American consumers need to adopt an attitude of skepticism and arm themselves with enough information to make some of their own decisions.

In 1949, Ron Losee, a young Yale Medical School graduate, headed west with his wife and small daughter to begin the practice of medicine. They settled in Ennis, Montana, in a log cabin that also became their office and lab. Patients made themselves at home in the living room. One small bag held all their medical equipment. It was a proud moment when a patient first called Losee "Doc." His fee on that occasion was three dollars.

In this eye-opening account of life in the ER, Paul Austin recalls how the daily grind of long, erratic shifts and endless hordes of patients with sad stories sent him down a path of bitterness and cynicism. Gritty, powerful, and ultimately redemptive, Something for the Pain is a revealing glimpse into the fragility of compassion and sanity in the industrial setting of today’s hospitals.