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4.13 AVERAGE
4.13 AVERAGE
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4.5; great book , would recommend, very up there on my list of nonfiction medical books
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Great memoir that details the descent into madness and hospitalization of 24-year-old Susannah Cahalan. Her condition left doctors perplexed, but she would eventually be diagnosed with anti-NMDA receptor autoimmune encephalitis due to a persistent neurologist.
I enjoyed the book for its elaborate and informative look at how the brain can be affected by rare diseases.
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This was a compelling book about one woman's descent into a month of her brain goong haywire on her.
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I really enjoyed this book, especially the small chunked chapters... it made me feel like I was really accomplishing a lot even though the chapters were only a few pages each. Beyond that though, I thought the story was very intriguing and frustrating to read about the helplessness that everyone felt as Susannah's body baffled nearly every healthcare professional. Fortunately, the book had a happy ending and it goes to show that as a patient you just need one doctor to believe in you. And you can reverse that thinking to say, as a doctor each patient needs just one believer to make a world of difference. One person rallying nonstop in their corner can make all the difference and be what saves their life (and as a doctor isn't that what it's all about). Anti-NDMA receptor encephalitis is a real beast of a disease but with enough people fighting the good fight and bringing awareness to it, a full recovery is very likely and those suffering from it can return to the life they once had. In the end, that approaching the patients with a curious, compassionate, and understanding attitude is worlds better than taking the "I'm the doctor, so I know everything and you don't" approach. And thankfully, in this case, Susannah eventually got a doctor who would do that for her.
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