
High Risk
A Doctor's Notes on Pregnancy, Birth, and the Unexpected
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Courtney Patterson
“My work offers a window into the darkest and lightest corners of people’s lives, into the extremes of human experience,” writes Dr. Chavi Eve Karkowsky in High Risk, her timely and unflinching account of working in maternal-fetal medicine - that branch of medicine that concerns high-risk pregnancies. Whether offering insight into the rise in home births, the alarming rise in America’s maternal mortality rate, or the history of involuntary sterilization, Karkowsky offers a window into all that pregnancy, labor, and birth can entail - birth and joy, but also challenge and loss - illustrating the complexity of reproductive life and the systems that surround it. With historical insight and journalistic verve, Karkowsky unpacks what is involved for women, for a family, and for us as a society; and explores what’s at risk when these aspects of medicine remain clouded in mystery and misinformation.
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The narrator had a nice voice and was easy to listen to. Although, she struggled with some medical pronounciations.
Great peek into the world of birth
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Great Listen
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Loved it!
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Well written and very educational
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Listening to this book made some of those experiences easier to reflect upon, some of them more enraging than before, and others with deep compassion towards everything and everybody. This book brought me lots of deeper understanding about many aspects of the medical field. I highly recommend! Narration was excellent, too.
Probably the best book I have ever read
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very good
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I’m currently training as a doula and appreciate the multiple ways that doulas and birth teams were included and also praised in this book.
Hearing from providers view
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