Maneater: And Other True Stories of a Life in Infectious Diseases
About this audiobook
Maneater is a personal account by a specialist who approaches her work like a forensic scientist or a case-hardened private eye. Dr. Pamela Nagami is a leading authority on infectious diseases and her stories will shock, amaze, and warn readers.
The patients in Maneater are ordinary Americans. When Danielle Jordan innocently ordered a salad for lunch in Puerta Vallarta she had no idea she had just become the "host" to an organism that six years later would grow into a worm and burrow into her brain.
Charlie Blair caught chicken pox, but he wasn't a kid, he was an adult, and that common childhood disease can attack a man and ravage his body until he looks like a third-degree-burn victim.
A small insect bite on Allan Roth's right foot made him a target for "flesh-eating strep." He shed his skin like a snake and a large area of tissue and skin was removed from his right thigh and lower abdomen.
Maneater will take readers on rounds with Dr. Nagami, where they will learn, from a safe distance, what the diseases are, what it's like to be a medical detective, and how it feels to make the medical and ethical decisions that can mean the difference between life and death.
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About the author
Pamela Nagami, M.D., received her medical doctor degree from Yale University in 1976 and is certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine in internal medicine and infectious diseases. She is the clinical associate professor of medicine at the UCLA School of Medicine and staff physician in internal medicine and infectious diseases at the Southern California Permanente Medical Group's Kaiser Foundation Hospital. She resides in Encino, California.
Donna Rawlins is an accomplished and successful songwriter, vocalist and female voiceover artist. She has read a wide range of audiobooks--from Jane Heller's Female Intelligence to novels by Suzanne Brockmann, Tami Hoag, and Dana Reinhardt. Her voiceover work can also be heard on numerous educational programs, commercials, documentaries, PSAs and featured voice parts in various films such as Citizen Ruth starring Laura Dern.
