The baby would not survive.Īwdish pulled through thanks to aggressive treatment, but she also learned things she “might not have wanted to know” about how doctors can fail their patients in simple but meaningful ways, while getting “technical things so perfectly right,” she writes. She descended into a spiral of multisystem organ failure and shock, suffering a stroke, and requiring life support. “I lost my entire blood volume into my abdomen,” Awdish writes. A hidden tumor in her liver ruptured and caused severe bleeding. In an article in the New England Journal of Medicine, Awdish recalls how she “effectively bled to death in own hospital” at the end of her fellowship training, while seven months pregnant. As a pulmonary and critical care physician at the Henry Ford Health, she can reflect upon the compassionate bravery of health care workers that sustained her and her colleagues during the pandemic.Īwdish also plans to share something much more intimate and powerful when she speaks to Michigan’s newest Medical School graduates - how she survived a near-death experience as a patient in 2008, and how that event changed her as a doctor and teacher. Rana Awdish, M.D., has plenty she can draw upon when she addresses the Medical School graduating Class of 2023 at their Commencement ceremony on May 12 in Hill Auditorium.Īs a University of Michigan alumna, she can share memories of her time on the Ann Arbor campus.
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