Other Rivers: A Chinese Education by Peter Hessler

Other Rivers: A Chinese Education by Peter Hessler

For this Apollo on Call x W5H Book Club episode, Dave and Luki read Other Rivers: A Chinese Education by Peter Hessler. The book focuses on the quirks and challenges in the education system the author witnessed as a visiting professor in China. At the end, Dave and Luki reflect on an entire year of reading books about China, and how they feel at the end of this journey. Check out Dave’s Substack for more! ⁠https://davidmhsu.substack.com/⁠ [https://davidmhsu.substack.com/]

Remarkable Recovery by Caryle Hirshberg and Marc Ian Barasch

In this episode, Luki Danukarjanto takes a sympathetic approach to the idea that attitude can be a decisive factor in a patient’s recovery, and even survivability, from a disease. The clinician in Dave prevents him from taking the same route, offering a much more skeptical view. Check out Dave’s Substack for more! https://davidmhsu.substack.com/ [https://davidmhsu.substack.com/]

Being Mortal by Atul Gawande

In this episode of Apollo on Call, Dave is joined by Luki Danukarjanto to discuss Atul Gawande’s book on end-of-life care, as well as relate it to their aging parents and their own experience getting older. They also examine the medical perspective to the situation — is well-being or survival the goal of end-of-life care? Check out Dave’s Substack for more! https://davidmhsu.substack.com/ [https://davidmhsu.substack.com/]

Daughters of the Bamboo Grove by Barbara Demick

In this Apollo on Call x W5H Book Club episode, we read Daughters of the Bamboo Grove by Barbara Demick. The focus is on the children that were trafficked from China to the United States as a result of the CCP’s one-child policy and women's rights in China. Check out Dave’s Substack for more! ⁠https://davidmhsu.substack.com/ [https://davidmhsu.substack.com/]

The PITT Season One Spoiled!

Having finished watching season one of The PITT, Dr. Hsu and Dr. Stuart Harman reconvene to review the season, this time with spoilers on! Theme music: Un Sospiro by Franz Liszt, performed by Dr. Justina Sam