Why Is It Important for Doctors to Listen to Their Patients?

Why Is It Important for Doctors to Listen to Their Patients?

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Publisher's Synopsis

Faith. Hope. Love. Strength. The story of Josephine M. Yorke, who suffered an aliment of hypoglycemia in 1956, at age 6, in the Caribbean island of Carriacou, Grenada, West-Indies. This world-wide ailment is misdiagnosed only by some medical doctors. This illness was inherited from my father's side of the Allert family genes. The symptoms is in similarity to a diabetic...During the illness of the hypoglycemia, I encountered discrimination from some family members, some workforce workers, some university professors, disparity from some medical doctors who did not listened and paid attention of what was happening to me. I, the patient, was stereotyped, due to my ethnic background, of being a black female, obese due to the illness of hypoglycemia. I am alive today, because of several caring beloved doctors who took the time to listen, listen and listen to Josephine Yorke

Book information

ISBN: 9781462654833
Publisher: America Star Books
Imprint: America Star Books
Pub date:
Language: English
Number of pages: 52
Weight: 204g
Height: 216mm
Width: 140mm
Spine width: 6mm