Rachel Pearson
Rachel Pearson is an MD and PhD student at the University of Texas Medical Branch and the Institute for the Medical Humanities in Galveston. Her fiction, poetry, and essays have appeared in the Mid-American Review, the Texas Observer, and elsewhere.
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No Apparent Distress
- By: Rachel Pearson
- Narrator: Rebecca Gibel
- Length: 8 hours 59 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2017
- Language: English
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A brutally frank memoir about doctors and patients in a health care system that puts the poor at risk
In medical charts, the term “N.A.D.” (No Apparent Distress) is used for patients who appear stable. The phrase also aptly describes... Read more
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