Death of the Good Doctor: Lessons from the Heart of the AIDS Epidemic - Softcover

Scannell, Kate

4.18

112 ratings by Goodreads

9781573440912: Death of the Good Doctor: Lessons from the Heart of the AIDS Epidemic

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1573440914 ISBN 13: 9781573440912

Publisher: Viva Editions, 1999

View all copies of this ISBN edition:

Based on journals written during her five years as the clinical director of AIDS programs in Oakland, CA, Death of the Good Doctor is a richly detailed chronicle of the author's compassionate relationships with individual patients through whom she filters the vast complexities of the epidemic. These beautiful, often difficult, and sometimes humorous engagements with her patients were the substance of Kate Scannell's life during her years on the AIDS ward. This is not the standard narrative of a physician acting upon or commenting about her patients from an observer's or authority figure's viewpoint. Diagnosed with ovarian cancer several years after leaving the AIDS ward, Scannell writes from the point of view of both a physician and a woman facing the prospects of her own mortality.

"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.

About the Author:

Kate Scannell has published broadly in lay and professional journals, most recently focusing on the sociopolitical and ethical dimensions of health care. For more than ten years she has written a syndicated opinion column for several Bay Area newspapers. She is the author of the memoir Death of the Good Doctor—Lessons from the Heart of the AIDS Epidemic (Cleis Press, 1999) and the novel Flood Stage (2010). She practices medicine in Northern California and is board certified in Geriatrics, Internal Medicine, and Rheumatology.

Synopsis:

The author recounts her experiences as the clinical director of AIDS programs in Oakland, California from 1985 to 1990.

"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.