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Catching Babies - J D Kleinke, 9780578798592, paperback
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Publisher
Bayamet LLC
ISBN-10
057879859X
ISBN-13
9780578798592
eBay Product ID (ePID)
20050078941
Product Key Features
Book Title
Catching Babies
Number of Pages
336 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2020
Topic
Psychological, Medical
Genre
Fiction
Format
Trade Paperback
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0.8 in
Item Weight
17.5 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
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Trade
Reviews
Catching Babies is an inside look at the industry that brings our babies into this world. It's a harsh world for doctors who work to make sure that every baby has a soft landing. Insightful. Gripping. Wonderful. - Lisa Sanders, MD, Author, "Diagnosis" Column for The New York Times Magazine & Every Patient Tells a Story A most remarkable aspect of birth is how this normal and simple act is frequently neither. In Catching Babies, Kleinke powerfully demonstrates how birth, despite advanced technologies and medical interventions, remains the center of our common human experience - usually the greatest of joys yet also tainted with occasions of unavoidable loss and misery. If ignorance is bliss, then how are young physicians molded by the realities of daily struggles to avert life's ultimate cruelties? As someone who has lived this life for twenty years, I wept often at how accurately Catching Babies portrays the elations and internal private fears shared by the women and men who dedicate their lives to serving women's health, with complex motivations, variable results and often at high cost to themselves and their families. Catching Babies also exposes the current complexities that hinder bringing balance back to a birth experience that is too often polarized. For those who want safer and more satisfying health for women, this book is a must read. - James Byrne, MD, OB/GYN Chair, Santa Clara Valley Medical Center & Clinical Associate Professor, Maternal Fetal Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine If you think Grey's Anatomy is shallow, House ridiculous, and you can't keep track of who's doing whom on Private Practice, you should read Catching Babies. J.D. Kleinke has done one of the hardest things imaginable - taken a swath of health policy, medical care issues, and ethics - and surrounded it in a novel I could not put down. On the other hand, if you love those TV medical dramas, read Catching Babies now so you can complain knowingly to your friends when Hollywood messes up the characters and the medicine in the inevitable-to-come TV series. - Matthew Holt, Co-Founder, Health 2.0 & Founder, The Health Care Blog Noted health care economist J.D. Kleinke uses the vehicle of a riveting novel to nail the American health care mess. Deeply flawed but compelling medical figures rip raw the deeply flawed American social construct, the deeply flawed medical profession, and the deeply flawed health care system through the unforgiving prism of that most elemental human activity: sexual reproduction. - George D Lundberg, MD, Editor-in-Chief, Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), 1982-1999 Combining romance with political intrigue and sharp insights into healthcare delivery, economist-turned-novelist Kleinke has created a page-turner. - Peter Frishauf, Founder, Medscape The academic medical center is the largest, most complicated stage in our health care system, and Kleinke is its master dramatist. Catching Babies humanizes the manic energy and impenetrable culture of our teaching hospitals, showing us the best and worst of how we are training the next generation of specialist-physicians, often within the same few breaths. This may be the great American medical novel. - George D. Pillari, Co-Founder, Solucient
Synopsis
The birthing of a new baby is one of life's great medical and human dramas. When it goes well, it is a loud and joyful mess. But when it goes badly, it is a travesty, devastating not only to hopeful mothers, but also to their doctors regardless of how well they have learned to anticipate and navigate the myriad hazards of obstetric medicine. Catching Babies charts the professional and personal struggles of those doctors. In the halls of a busy metropolitan teaching hospital, a group of OB/GYN doctors complete their residencies and embark on ambitious careers, all while trying to hold their lives together at the seams. Jay is running from a life he's tried to leave behind, while Katie sacrifices everything she has to serve an endless parade of needy patients. Anna is out trying to save the world, while Tracy is trying to save twins dying in utero. Based on true stories from delivery rooms and labor decks, Catching Babies spins the doctors' stories into a gripping mosaic of the obsessions, the anxieties, and the heroism of doctors who have chosen to preside over life's greatest medical drama-high-risk childbirth. AUTHOR'S NOTE (abridged): "I started researching and writing Catching Babies in 2003 as a non-fiction exposé of the messy and often fierce technical, moral, and cultural conflicts at the heart of women's health. My earlier study of the clinical practice patterns of childbirth and gynecologic surgery, combined with fortuitous friendships with physicians and midwives at critical moments in their training, coalesced in a stark idea I had yet to encounter in the health services literature: obstetrics and gynecology stand at ground zero of a broader health care system pulled apart by polarizing forces that often have little to do with medicine, ethics, or patients' real needs. Catching Babies was originally intended as a clinically detailed study of how these wildly problematic and deeply misunderstood medical subjects play out in the real world. It was conceived as the general public's first hard look behind the medical curtain into the practice, politics, and often bizarre culture of obstetrics and gynecology, as smashed together into a single specialty and "organized" in the most disorganized health care system in the world. It would also map out the complex turf war between most (but not all) OB/GYNs and the growing and diverse ranks of midwives. As I dug more deeply into these cases and their often unlikely outcomes, I noticed the recurrence of an odd phenomenon that has confounded health researchers for decades: medical decisions and outcomes often have less to do with what the patient needs or where public health analysis would lead, and more to do with what's eating at the doctor, what's making the patient act out, or what's wrong back at either one's home. Fast-forward through a few rough drafts and a few rough years, and suddenly the medical cases I had assembled to illustrate some of health care's thornier problems struck me as far more interesting than the problems themselves. Catching Babies still seeks to tell the larger story of how and why we deliver most babies and care for most women in the odd and often maddening ways we do. There is nothing that simultaneously combines so much wonder, terror, and joy than childbirth. People who witness it for the first time so often refer to it in starkly religious terms, because it really is the miracle of life, unfolding before our very eyes, every single time." J.D. Kleinke, The birthing of a new baby is one of life's great medical and human dramas. When it goes well, it is a loud and joyful mess. But when it goes badly, it is a travesty, devastating not only to hopeful mothers, but also to their doctors regardless of how well they have learned to anticipate and navigate the myriad hazards of obstetric medicine. Catching Babies charts the professional and personal struggles of those doctors. In the halls of a busy metropolitan teaching hospital, a group of OB/GYN doctors complete their residencies and embark on ambitious careers, all while trying to hold their lives together at the seams. Based on true stories from delivery rooms and labor decks, Catching Babies spins the doctors' stories into a gripping mosaic of the obsessions, the anxieties, and the heroism of doctors who have chosen to preside over life's greatest medical drama: high-risk childbirth., In a busy metropolitan teaching hospital, a group of OB/GYN doctors complete their residencies while holding their lives together at the seams. Catching Babies tells the human story of life's greatest medical drama-high-risk childbirth.
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