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Author Kullberg, Patricia, author

Title On the ragged edge of medicine : doctoring among the dispossessed / Patricia Kullberg
Published Corvallis : Oregon State University Press, 2017

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Description 1 online resource
Contents Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface; Fast Water; A Delicate Balance; On a Bad Day; Imagine That; Let's Have a Look; Heart Secrets; The Woman Who Saw the Doctor Too Much; Happy Face; Get Real; The Visit; Victory Garden; How Samuel Got Back His Poise; A Morning Wreck; Cold Bones; A Complicated Course; Afterword; Notes to the Text
Summary On the ragged edge of medicine offers a unique and personal glimpse into a medical practice for the homeless and urban poor in Portland, Oregon. Told through 15 patient vignettes and drawn from the author's decades of experience on the front lines, this revealing memoir illuminates the impact of poverty on the delivery of health services and the ways in which people adapt and survive (or don't survive) in conditions of abuse and deprivation
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes Description based on print version record
Subject Kullberg, Patricia
SUBJECT Kullberg, Patricia
Subject Homeless persons -- Medical care -- Oregon -- Portland -- Case studies
Urban poor -- Medical care -- Oregon -- Portland -- Case studies
Medical care.
Vulnerable Populations
Delivery of Health Care
Community Health Centers
Ill-Housed Persons
Socioeconomic Factors
Patient Care
Medical care
Homeless persons -- Medical care
Urban poor -- Medical care
SUBJECT Oregon https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D009922
Subject Oregon -- Portland
Genre/Form Personal narratives
Case studies
Personal narratives.
Narratives.
Biographies.
Récits personnels.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2016050217
ISBN 087071886X
9780870718861