No Apparent Distress

A Doctor’s Coming-of-Age on the Front Lines of American Medicine

By: Rachel Pearson MD

Narrated by: Rebecca Gibel

In medical charts, the term "N.A.D." (No Apparent Distress) is used for patients who appear stable. The phrase also aptly describes America's medical system when it comes to treating the underprivileged. Medical students learn on the bodies of the poor - and the poor suffer from their mistakes.

Rachel Pearson confronted these harsh realities when she started medical school in Galveston, Texas. Pearson, herself from a working-class background, remains haunted by the suicide of a close friend, experiences firsthand the heartbreak of her own errors in a patient's care, and witnesses the ruinous effects of a hurricane on a Texas town's medical system. In No Apparent Distress, she chronicles her experiences and the raging disparities in a system that favors the rich and the white. This is at once an indictment of American health care and a deeply moving tale of one doctor's coming-of-age.

©2017 Rachel Pearson (P)2017 Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Medical Stories Addict

I appreciated the writers honest telling of her struggles of training to be a doctor.

Standard Medical Memoir, With a Heart

This memoir is by a doctor with a heart, telling of some formative experiences leading up to & in medical school. I enjoyed it.

Excellent!!!

I am not in the medical field but this book gave me a much needed change in perspective. One of my favorites yet! I highly recommend it for people of all walks of life. It's a treasure. ♡

Wonderful accounting of a medical student’s life

I really enjoyed this book and the varied emotions a medical student encounters learning the art of medicine. I recommend it!

A lot of short clips in latter half

The book slowly turned into a series of unconnected stories, many of them seeming unfinished.