“We are in a paradigm shift where patients need the help of the healthcare system, yet at the same time have to protect themselves from it.”
Surviving Medical Madness by Laura Buchman is a mother’s chilling, yet inspiring and informative medical memoir about her hospitalized son’s fight for his life.Just months after starting at Juilliard, her son's life is thrown off course when he enters the hospital for what should have been an in-and-out visit.
With her son in critical condition, his life threatened and health spinning out of control, she trusts the hospital taking care of her son, but slowly starts to become aware that certain medications and procedures themselves may have set off a catastrophic cascade of devastating health issues.NERVE takes you on a journey into the dark underbelly of a broken healthcare system as this resilient young man navigates an unfathomable health crisis that could happen to anyone. Ultimately, it's a story about his perseverance to move forward and find a way through the madness.