{"product_id":"your-heart-is-the-size-of-your-fist-a-doctor-reflects-on-ten-years-at-a-refugee-clinic-9781927366684","title":"Your Heart Is the Size of Your Fist: A Doctor Reflects on Ten Years at a Refugee Clinic","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eYour Heart Is the Size of Your Fist \u003ci\u003edraws readers into the complicated, poignant, and often-overlooked daily happenings of a busy urban medical clinic for refugees.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAn Iraqi journalist whose son has been been murdered develops post-traumatic stress disorder and mourns his loss of vocation. A Congolese woman refuses antiretroviral treatment for her new HIV diagnosis, and instead places her trust in Jesus. Two conservative Muslim Iraqi women are inadvertently exposed to pornography when a doctor uses Google Images to supplement a medical discussion. By turns humorous, distressing, and moving, these stories offer insight into the people seeking a new life while navigating poverty, language barriers, and neighbours who aren't always friendly.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis riveting collection of true stories from Dr. Martina Scholtens is filled with hope and humour, and together make up a deeply moving portrait of how one doctor attempts to provide quality care and advocacy for patients while remaining culturally sensitive, even as she wrestles with guilt, awareness of her own privilege, the faith she was raised with, and vicarious trauma after hearing countless stories of brutality and suffering.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn the spirit of Louise Aronson and Atul Gawande, Scholtens' writing is based on her personal experiences and explores the transformative moments in which a clinical doctor-patient relationship becomes a profound human-human connection.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eScholtens, Martina:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cb\u003eMartina Scholtens\u003c\/b\u003e, MD, MPH, CCFP worked for ten years as a family physician at Bridge Refugee Clinic in Vancouver, Canada. Her book about this work, \u003ci\u003eYour Heart Is the Size of Your Fist\u003c\/i\u003e, was published in 2017. She is a clinical instructor with the Faculty of Medicine at UBC. In addition to clinical work, she has lectured on mixing art and medicine, done extensive advocacy work around federal health insurance for refugees, and acted as a consultant when BC settled 3,000 Syrian refugees in 2016. She is a recipient of the Mimi Divinsky Award for History and Narrative in Family Medicine. She is now doing a psychiatry residency in Victoria, BC, where she lives with her husband and four kids. For more information, visit martinascholtens.com.","brand":"Brindle \u0026 Glass","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50364077768978,"sku":"9781927366684","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_cc797a00-a952-4040-85b9-db2527ed8ca4.jpg?v=1728425560","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/your-heart-is-the-size-of-your-fist-a-doctor-reflects-on-ten-years-at-a-refugee-clinic-9781927366684","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}