The shocking story of a doctor who became a patient and discovered the extent of medical anaesthesia. What are doctors not telling us? Do they always give us the right medication? Are they concerned about our condition? What do they really think of us patients?
She was lying on the operating table. The heavy anaesthetic made her unable to move, but she was able to hear the doctor's dispassionately spoken words: "We are losing her. Am I just dying? - she thought. Will I wake up from the anaesthetic? Will someone finally do something? Dr Awdish worked in the intensive care unit. When she became seriously ill herself, she ended up in the same hospital. She was shocked to discover the reality there from a patient's perspective. The doctors did not care about her condition, they hardly ever showed her empathy. They were negligent and made mistakes, which, as a medically trained person, she was able to pick up on.
The treatment she underwent changed her view of the patient-doctor relationship forever. Learn the whole truth about the little gods that determine our lives at critical moments.