Diagnosed with advanced ovarian cancer at age 42, Dr. Katherine
"Kasia" Clark was given 1-2 years to live. Ten years
later, Outside In reveals her fight to reclaim
body and soul, following Kasia from hospital bed to exam rooms
and doctor consultations, training for triathlons, making art
movies with her mother, and suing the doctors who missed her
diagnosis. From the unique point of view of a doctor-turned-patient,
Kasia seeks answers to profound questions: "How can I save
myself?" "Who can I trust?" "Who am I now?"
"How do I choose to live?" "When do I prepare
to die?"
Through frank discussions with her medical doctors, psychiatrist,
physicist father, artist mother, schizophrenic sister, and
good friends, Kasia exposes her fears, longings, and hopes.
She challenges her body with risky rock climbs, rigorous swims,
vertical ski slopes. She speaks in an articulate, angry, and
determined voice. She swims and swims. She finds solace in
art and nature, vindication in the law, spiritualism in music,
and a sense of control in filmmaking and mastering the violin.
While relying on evidence-based medical treatment and her
own experience as a doctor, Kasia steps out of the box to
save her life and redefine her identity, professionally and
personally, physically and emotionally, and sexually. She
leaves her longtime partner and home in the country to rediscover
herself with new people and places, experimenting with mind/body
therapies and radical nutritional regimens, always pushing
herself physically to solve the mystery of, "How can
I be sick if I'm getting stronger?"
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