Her most vulnerable moment spawned a battle for change. In and out of emergency rooms, Julie Devaney is poked and prodded, bearing the helplessness and chilling indignities of "hospital purgatory."

Part memoir, part love story, part revolutionary manifesto, this raw, harrowing, often gruesomely funny tale recounts Devaney's journey through hospitals and doctors' offices. Based on her popular one-woman show, My Leaky Body lays bare the deficiencies in health care, creating a road map for patients and for all those who want to transform the system.