Up The Down Escalator

Medicine, Motherhood, and Multiple Sclerosis

Narrated by Lisa Doggett
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Pub Date Aug 15 2023 | Archive Date Aug 15 2023
Biographies & Memoirs | Nonfiction (Adult)

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A memoir of triumph in the face of a terrifying diagnosis, Up the Down Escalator recounts Dr. Lisa Doggett's startling shift from doctor to patient, as she learns to live with multiple sclerosis while running a clinic for uninsured patients in central Austin. Facing the prospect of a career-ending disability as she adjusts to life with multiple sclerosis, Dr. Lisa Doggett is forced to deal with a new level of uncertainty and vulnerability, and the everyday fear that something new will go wrong. Taking off her white coat-becoming a patient herself-she confronts unimaginable fears, copes with her limitations, and sidesteps her skepticism of alternative medicine to seek help from unlikely sources. MS pushes Doggett-a perfectionist at heart-to embrace self-compassion. As a patient, she learns to advocate for herself to ensure on-time medication deliveries and satisfactory treatment plans; to navigate chronic dizziness, relapses, and parenting frustrations; and to push her physical limits as a runner to go farther than ever before. This hopeful and uplifting book will encourage those living with chronic disease, and those supporting them, to power forward with courage and grace.

A memoir of triumph in the face of a terrifying diagnosis, Up the Down Escalator recounts Dr. Lisa Doggett's startling shift from doctor to patient, as she learns to live with multiple sclerosis...

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"It is refreshing to read the perspective of Dr. Doggett and how she is handling MS clinically and personally. Her life-long dedication to medicine and compassionate fight to serve patients with MS is exemplified in this book. There is a great credibility when Dr. Doggett tells a patient 'I understand.' This has encouraged me as a person with MS, just to know a practicing physician truly gets it!" —Micah Love, MS warrior, activist, and author

"Lisa Doggett’s thoughtful new memoir, Up the Down Escalator, offers rare and vital insights into a health care system that continues to leave too many behind. . . . This book demands attention from those who seek a more just and compassionate world and want to understand how to make it so." —Stacey Abrams, political leader, voting rights activist, and New York Times bestselling author

"It is refreshing to read the perspective of Dr. Doggett and how she is handling MS clinically and personally. Her life-long dedication to medicine and compassionate fight to serve patients with MS...

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EDITION Audiobook, Unabridged
ISBN 9781696612517
PRICE $19.99 (USD)
DURATION 9 Hours, 48 Minutes

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