Lifelines: A Doctor's Journey in the Fight for Public Health

by Dr. Leana Wen Narrated by Dr. Leana Wen

Overview

"Dr. Wen is determined to convince listeners how crucial it is to make healthcare and all it encompasses higher priorities. Covering a variety of physical and mental health topics, Wen entreats listeners and supports her plea with solid evidence. She is vibrant in tone when pointing out how much public health affects our lives." -- Audiofile Magazine


This program is read by the author.

From medical expert Leana Wen, MD, Lifelines is an insider's account of public health and its crucial role-from opioid addiction to global pandemic-and an inspiring story of her journey from struggling immigrant to being one of Time's 100 Most Influential People.

“Public health saved your life today-you just don't know it,” is a phrase that Dr. Leana Wen likes to use. You don't know it because good public health is invisible. It becomes visible only in its absence, when it is underfunded and ignored, a bitter truth laid bare as never before by the devastation of COVID-19.

Leana Wen-emergency physician, former Baltimore health commissioner, CNN medical analyst, and Washington Post contributing columnist-has lived on the front lines of public health, leading the fight against the opioid epidemic, outbreaks of infectious disease, maternal and infant mortality, and COVID-19 disinformation. Here, in gripping detail, Wen lays bare the lifesaving work of public health and its innovative approach to social ills, treating gun violence as a contagious disease, for example, and racism as a threat to health.

Wen also tells her own uniquely American story: an immigrant from China, she and her family received food stamps and were at times homeless despite her parents working multiple jobs. That child went on to attend college at thirteen, become a Rhodes scholar, and turn to public health as the way to make a difference in the country that had offered her such possibilities.

Ultimately, she insists, it is public health that ensures citizens are not robbed of decades of life, and that where children live does not determine whether they live.

A Macmillan Audio production from Metropolitan Books

Editorial Reviews

AUGUST 2021 - AudioFile

Dr. Leana Wen digs deeply into the topic of public health and argues for its importance from a vantage point that is not often presented to the public. Delivering vital information, she discloses her own insider's accounts of various health crises in the U.S. and throughout the world. She is determined to convince listeners how crucial it is to make healthcare and all it encompasses higher priorities. Covering a variety of physical and mental health topics, Wen entreats listeners and supports her plea with solid evidence. She is vibrant in tone when pointing out how much public health affects our lives. At the same time, she candidly shares the inspirational immigrant story of how she became the successful woman she is now. D.Z. © AudioFile 2021, Portland, Maine

AUGUST 2021 - AudioFile

Dr. Leana Wen digs deeply into the topic of public health and argues for its importance from a vantage point that is not often presented to the public. Delivering vital information, she discloses her own insider's accounts of various health crises in the U.S. and throughout the world. She is determined to convince listeners how crucial it is to make healthcare and all it encompasses higher priorities. Covering a variety of physical and mental health topics, Wen entreats listeners and supports her plea with solid evidence. She is vibrant in tone when pointing out how much public health affects our lives. At the same time, she candidly shares the inspirational immigrant story of how she became the successful woman she is now. D.Z. © AudioFile 2021, Portland, Maine

Product Details

BN ID:	2940177036465
Publisher:	Macmillan Audio
Publication date:	07/27/2021
Edition description:	Unabridged

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