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Author Ruth Brown was born with mastocytosis, a rare, complex, and little-known disease responsible for producing a multitude of diverse symptoms. As a result of her condition, she experienced many incredible encounters with medical professionals and institutions. In Surviving Medical Care, she writes of the nearly fifty-five years she spent seeking medical attention for a series of seemingly unrelated and sporadic symptoms.
While living a relatively normal life as a wife, mother, and software developer, she coped with the challenges of her affliction. As her condition worsened, she desperately sought a correct medical diagnosis and appropriate treatment. In her frequent visits with medical professionals, her care ranged from outstanding to poor and even horrifically negligent. Despite numerous obstacles, she never lost her optimism or her sense of humor.
In this memoir, Brown shares how her extensive experience as a patient exemplifies pitfalls of medical care in the United States. Her problems arose not from a lack of excellent medical coverage but from a variety of other problems: physicians with poor communication skills; unnecessary, costly and invasive testing; medical personnel not trained to think logically or creatively; tight schedules in physicians' offices; overcrowded and understaffed emergency rooms; and indifferent physicians.
While Surviving Medical Care narrates Brown's personal story, it has much to say about how Americans need to be involved in their medical care and advocate for improvements in the medical system.
About the author
Ruth Brown
An Ohioan
Born and raised in Chagrin Falls, Ohio.
Geauga County.
She raised her four children in Sunday school there.
She is a Sunday school teacher. Started in the 1970,s until present day.
Pastoral training in Columbus Ohio working under the leadership of Bishop Waymon Malone Jr.
Inspired to write book in 2009. Published in 2014.
Ruth Brown has published inspirational
poems. The latest is called Good Morning Sunshine.
She has 3 grown children and a Grandmother of 10 that includes 2 great granddaughters.
