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A Final Arc of Sky: A Memoir of Critical Care

10 best books like A Final Arc of Sky: A Memoir of Critical Care (Jennifer Culkin): Just Here Trying to Save a Few Lives: Tales of Life and Death from the ER, Of Spirits and Madness: An American Psychiatrist in Africa, Delivering Doctor Amelia: The Story of a Gifted Young Obstetrician's Error and the Psychologist Who Helped Her, The Blood of Strangers: Stories from Emergency Medicine, Critical Care: A New Nurse Faces Death, Life, and Everything in Between, Tending Lives: Nurses on the Medical Front, The Making of a Nurse, Trouble In Mind: Stories From A Neuropsychologist's Casebook, Becoming Dr. Q: My Journey from Migrant Farm Worker to Brain Surgeon, The Man with the Beautiful Voice: And More Stories from the Other Side of the Couch

Just Here Trying to Save a Few Lives: Tales of Life and Death from the ER
AuthorPamela Grim
ISBN0446677574
An emergency medicine physician for nearly a decade, Dr. Pamela Grim has delivered babies, treated heart attacks, saved car accident victims, comforted the dying, and consoled the living who were left behind.

She has worked all over the world, caring for victims of gang life in America's...
Of Spirits and Madness: An American Psychiatrist in Africa
AuthorPaul R. Linde
ISBN0071407995
"This is a wonderful book. It gives a warm and loving picture of an isolated African country regularly castigated in the US press. It reiterates eloquently lessons lost by our medical establishment and our populace, which need to be regained." --Journal of the American Medical Association.

An...
Delivering Doctor Amelia: The Story of a Gifted Young Obstetrician's Error and the Psychologist Who Helped Her
AuthorDan Shapiro
ISBN1400032571
“Voices are a soul’s signature,” says psychologist Dan Shapiro, who in his daily practice hears plenty of them. For all his expertise, he admits he’s still terrified that “someone will keep something from me, and when they tell me the truth, I’ll be useless.”

Treating other...
The Blood of Strangers: Stories from Emergency Medicine
AuthorFrank Huyler
Hailed by The Boston Globe as "a compact, faceted gem that shines with intelligence," this stunning collection offers a startling and moving look at people whose lives are on the line and the men and women who try to keep them from crossing it. These twenty-eight vignettes
seamlessly juxtapose...
Critical Care: A New Nurse Faces Death, Life, and Everything in Between
AuthorTheresa Brown
ISBN0061791555
“Among all the recent books on medicine, Critical Care stands alone.“ — Pauline Chen, author of Final Exam

“A must read for anyone who wants to understand healthcare. Extraordinary.” — Elizabeth Cohen, MPH, CNN Senior Medical Correspondent

Critical Care is the powerful...
Tending Lives: Nurses on the Medical Front
AuthorEcho Heron
ISBN0804118213
As the healthcare debate rages on with the growth of the HMO industry, nurses quietly continue to provide the day-to-day grit and deeply-felt passion that hold the healing profession together. Within these remarkable women and men are poignant, outrageous stories drawn from the edge of life. But...
The Making of a Nurse
AuthorTilda Shalof
ISBN0771080956
The bestselling author of A Nurse’s Story is back with more insider stories.

Tilda Shalof has been a caregiver all her life — at home for her family, at work for strangers — but her skills didn’t come easily. From when she was a child taking care of her sick parents to her current position...
Trouble In Mind: Stories From A Neuropsychologist's Casebook
AuthorJenni Ogden
ISBN0199827001
In Trouble In Mind, neuropsychologist Jenni Ogden, author of Fractured Minds, transports the reader into the worlds of 15 of her most memorable neurological patients. There is Luke, the gang member who loses his speech but finds he can still sing, and HM, who by losing his memory becomes the most studied...
Becoming Dr. Q: My Journey from Migrant Farm Worker to Brain Surgeon
AuthorAlfredo Quinones-Hinojosa
ISBN0520271181
Today he is known as Dr. Q, an internationally renowned neurosurgeon and neuroscientist who leads cutting-edge research to cure brain cancer. But not too long ago, he was Freddy, a nineteen-year-old undocumented migrant worker toiling in the tomato fields of central California. In this gripping...
The Man with the Beautiful Voice: And More Stories from the Other Side of the Couch
AuthorLillian B. Rubin
ISBN0807029270
In her long career as a psychotherapist, acclaimed author Lillian Rubin occasionally encountered patients who demanded a very special, even unorthodox, therapeutic approach. For the first time, Dr. Rubin tells the stories of her most fascinating, most challenging cases from the other side of the...
My Almost Certainly Real Imaginary Jesus
AuthorKelly Barth
ISBN0980040752
Kelly Barth, like many American kids, went to Sunday school, sang songs about Zaccheas, and was tucked in with bedtime prayers. A typical Christian kid, that is, until she developed a searingly deep crush on another little girl playing afterhours in church, and more importantly, until Jesus—a tiny,...
Hope Will Find You: My Search for the Wisdom to Stop Waiting and Start Living
AuthorNaomi Levy
ISBN0385531702
How can I get my life off hold? When will my life really begin? We all ask ourselves the same questions when we are struggling to move forward. As a rabbi, Naomi Levy frequently offered spiritual guidance to people seeking the answers. But when a doctor told her that her young daughter, Noa, had a fatal...
The Surgeons: Life and Death in a Top Heart Center
AuthorCharles R. Morris
ISBN0393065626
Americans now spend more money on hearts than on new passenger cars. To understand this remarkable trend, Charles R. Morris "embedded" himself with a surgical team at New York-Presbyterian Hospital in New York City, one of the world's premier cardiac surgery and transplant centers. Given unprecedented...
Genetic Rounds: A Doctor's Encounters in the Field that Revolutionized Medicine
AuthorRobert Marion
ISBN1607144603
Renowned pediatrician and author Dr. Robert Marion, whose bestselling book "The Intern Blues" is revered by doctors of all ages, offers a powerful and moving account of his experiences in modern genetics. His gripping stories illuminate a cutting-edge field of impossible moral complexities and...
Trauma: My Life as an Emergency Surgeon
AuthorJames Cole
In this pulse-pounding medical memoir, trauma surgeon James Cole takes readers straight into the ER, where anything can and does happen.

TRAUMA is Dr. Cole's harrowing account of his life spent in the ER and on the battlegrounds, fighting to save lives. In addition to his gripping stories...
Almost Home: Stories of Hope and the Human Spirit in the Neonatal ICU
AuthorChristine Gleason
ISBN1607140497
This book is written by a neonatalogist who has spent her career in the NICU. The overall path of the book takes you through her career while also touching somewhat on her personal life, but each chapter is devoted to a single NICU patient that she was involved in treating. It was a really interesting look...
The House of Hope and Fear: Life in a Big City Hospital
AuthorAudrey Young
Critically acclaimed author Audrey Young offers a real-life Grey's Anatomy set in Seattle's big city hospital. Opening with the view of an idealistic young doctor entering her first post-graduate job at the local county hospital, The House of Hope and Fear explores not only the personal journey of...
Patient by Patient: Lessons in Love, Loss, Hope, and Healing from a Doctor's Practice
AuthorEmily R. Transue
ISBN0312372787
Patient by Patient is the memoir of a young doctor, fresh from residency, as she explores the joys and frustrations of beginning her medical practice.  As she strives to help her patients face a range of challenges from the humorous to the profoundly devastating she learns that while medical school...
Blue Collar, Blue Scrubs: The Making of a Surgeon
AuthorMichael J. Collins
ISBN0312532938
It looked for a while like Michael Collins would spend his life breaking concrete and throwing rocks for the Vittorio Scalese Construction Company. He liked the work and he liked the pay. But a chance remark by one of his coworkers made him realize that he wanted to involve himself in something bigger,...
My Baby Rides the Short Bus: The Unabashedly Human Experience of Raising Kids with Disabilities
AuthorYantra Bertelli
ISBN1604861096
The stories in this collection provide parents of special needs kids with a dose of both laughter and reality. Featuring works by so-called alternative parents who have attempted to move away from mainstream thought, this anthology carefully considers the implications of raising children with...
Between Expectations: Lessons from a Pediatric Residency
AuthorMeghan MacLean Weir
ISBN1439189072
When Dr. Meghan Weir first dons her scrubs and steps onto the floor of Children’s Hospital Boston as a newly minted resident, her head is packed with medical-school-textbook learning. She knows the ins and outs of the human body, has memorized the correct way to perform hundreds of complicated procedures,...
First, Do No Harm
AuthorLisa Belkin
What is life worth? And what is a life worth living?

At a time when America faces vital choices about the future of its health care, former New York Times correspondent Lisa Belkin takes a powerful and poignant look at the inner workings of Hermann Hospital in Houston, Texas, telling the remarkable,...
Match Day: One Day and One Dramatic Year in the Lives of Three New Doctors
AuthorBrian Eule
ISBN0312377843
Each year on the third Thursday in March, more than fifteen thousand graduating medical students exult, despair, and endure Match Day: the result of a computer algorithm that assigns students to their hospital residencies in almost every field of medicine. The match determines the crucial first...
Over My Head: A Doctor's Own Story of Head Injury from the Inside Looking Out
AuthorClaudia L. Osborn
ISBN0740705989
Locked inside a brain-injured head looking out at a challenging world is the premise of this extraordinary autobiography. Over My Head is an inspiring story of how one woman comes to terms with the loss of her identity and the courageous steps (and hilarious missteps) she takes while learning to rebuild...
Gray Matter: A Neurosurgeon Discovers the Power of Prayer... One Patient at a Time
AuthorDavid I. Levy
ISBN1414339755
A perfect blend of medical drama and spiritual insight, Gray Matter is a fascinating account of Dr. David Levy's decision to begin asking his patients if he could pray for them before surgery. Some are thrilled. Some are skeptical. Some are hostile, and some are quite literally transformed by the request....
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