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The Patient Doctor
- How One Man's Cancer Diagnosis Led to a Quest to Put the Heart Back into Healthcare
- Narrated by: Dr Ben Bravery
- Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins
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Publisher's Summary
A powerful and inspiring memoir about how one man's cancer diagnosis led to him become a doctor and advocate for change in the healthcare system.
At the age of 28, with his Beijing-based science communications business doing well and a new relationship blossoming, Ben Bravery woke from a colonoscopy to be told he had stage 3 colorectal cancer.
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Honest, powerful, eye-opening and sometimes heart-wrenchingly funny, this is an inspiring memoir that shows that no matter our situation we all need to be treated with care and compassion, right until the very end.
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- Anonymous User
- 06-01-2023
An essential read for healthcare workers and those they serve.
I couldn’t stop listening to Ben’s story and am so grateful to him for sharing all he has been through so openly. There was something extra special about hearing him reading his own story and the emotion in his voice.
Sadly, Ben’s descriptions of his treatment as a Med student, his observations of compassion fatigue and burnout in others, and his experiences as a junior doctor are 100% consistent with what I have seen around me as a fellow doctor.
Ben’s insights have been hard won and they are conclusions that take some of us in healthcare many years to come to. To have reached this point so early in his medical career speaks to his character and powers of observation, along with all he learned from a very challenging patient journey of his own. I look forward to seeing where Ben’s commitment to putting the heart and humanity back in healthcare will take him.
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- Rodney Bell
- 07-11-2022
So much to leave us to think about. Wonderful.
Really enjoyed listening to Ben read his story. It had everything, an interesting story of his life and a fascinating insight into the patient experience of illness and the medical system as well as from the side of the clinician. So glad to have people like Ben to look after us with such care and empathy. Hopefully highlighting the issues in the system will help to bring forward changes to medical training in Australia, changes to how we care for our up and coming doctors and changes to the patient experience she they are people first and medical conditions second. Thank you Ben
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- Anna C Carswell
- 11-04-2024
Compassion
Ben demonstrates some enviable characteristics and has made me reflect on my own career and patient interactions
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- Anonymous User
- 14-07-2022
One of the best books I have ever listened!
Very inspirational! Very positive! Very humorous! Very educational! Very touching! Very caring! Oh my god, I wish there are more doctors like Ben in this world to make it a better place for our children. I am so eager to read your next book and books after that Dr. Can I get your signed copy by any chance😀? Are you coming to NZ by any chance?
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- Anonymous User
- 26-07-2022
Brilliant and insightful
A remarkable story of courage. Calling for the change so critically needed in the training and support of doctors.
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- Anonymous User
- 29-07-2022
Hope for humanity: A triumphant autobiography
A story of tenacity, spoken with humility, from an emerging doctor who defeated cancer. This book gives us hope that Australia's faulted healthcare system can be saved by rescuing the patient-doctor relationship. We need more doctors like Dr Bravery in the world. An inspiring human being.
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- Anonymous User
- 24-11-2022
Thank you for sharing your story!
Heartfelt, emotional, moving and empowering story. What a wonderful human you are Ben. The earth needs more doctors like you!
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- Jennifer Exall
- 22-07-2022
Crystal clear picture of our health system
Ben Bravery has written the most detailed and accurate assessment of the inner workings of Australia's health system and the life of a junior doctor that I have seen to date. Must read for anyone considering a career in medicine, or for the parents and family members.
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- Denyse
- 07-08-2022
What a health system needs is MORE Dr Ben Braverys!
Such a good book to listen to as Dr Ben Bravery read his own words! I really enjoyed the whole patient/doctor/health system discussion. I sure would like to know things could change with Dr Bravery keep up the ideas & new ideas he has. I really loved your frankness Ben & will share this review on Twitter too!
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- Bevin
- 19-10-2022
We need more doctors like Ben
The world needs more doctors like Ben. He is a doctor who knows how to care and how to tell a story.
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