Critical Care: A New Nurse Faces Death, Life, and Everything in Between
10 best books like Critical Care: A New Nurse Faces Death, Life, and Everything in Between (Theresa Brown): Trauma Room Two, Intensive Care: The Story of a Nurse, I Wasn't Strong Like This When I Started Out: True Stories of Becoming a Nurse, Something for the Pain: Compassion and Burnout in the ER, The Nurses: A Year of Secrets, Drama, and Miracles with the Heroes of the Hospital, A Nurse's Story, In Stitches, Another Day in the Frontal Lobe: A Brain Surgeon Exposes Life on the Inside, Trauma Junkie: Memoirs of an Emergency Flight Nurse, The Night Shift: Real Life In The Heart Of The E.R.
In every hospital emergency department there is a room reserved for trauma. It is a place where life and death meet. A place where some families celebrate the most improbable of victories while others face the most devastating of losses. A place where what matters the most in this life is revealed.
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Intensive Care: The Story of a Nurse
| Author | Echo Heron |
| ISBN | 0804102511 |
Intensive Care: The Story of a Nurse by Echo Heron was the first book about nurses I read after becoming a Registered Nurse. At the time i found it daunting...a seemingly impossible job. Echo Heron told the story with warmth and compassion but also in complete candor. She had done it, not because it...
I Wasn't Strong Like This When I Started Out: True Stories of Becoming a Nurse
| Author | Lee Gutkind |
| ISBN | 1937163121 |
This collection of true narratives reflects the dynamism and diversity of nurses, who provide the first vital line of patient care. Here, nurses remember their first “sticks,” first births, and first deaths, and reflect on what gets them though long, demanding shifts, and keeps them in the profession....
Something for the Pain: Compassion and Burnout in the ER
| Author | Paul Austin |
| ISBN | 0393337790 |
In this eye-opening account of life in the ER, Paul Austin recalls how the daily grind of long, erratic shifts and endless hordes of patients with sad stories sent him down a path of bitterness and cynicism. Gritty, powerful, and ultimately redemptive, Something for the Pain is a revealing glimpse into...
The Nurses: A Year of Secrets, Drama, and Miracles with the Heroes of the Hospital
| Author | Alexandra Robbins |
| ISBN | 0761171711 |
In this lively, fast-paced narrative, New York Times bestselling author Alexandra Robbins digs deep into the subculture of nursing, drawing readers into a brilliantly captivating in-depth investigation of the extraordinary working lives of nurses and the shocking behind-the-scenes secrets...
| Author | Tilda Shalof |
| ISBN | 0771080875 |
The team of nurses that Tilda Shalof found herself working with in the intensive care unit (ICU) of a big-city hospital was known as “Laura’s Line.” They were a bit wild: smart, funny, disrespectful of authority, but also caring and incredibly committed to their jobs. Laura set the tone with her...
| Author | Anthony Youn |
| ISBN | 1451608446 |
Scrubs meets David Sedaris in this hilarious fish-out-of-water memoir about a young Korean-American nerd turned renowned plastic surgeon.
Dr. Tony Youn grew up one of two Asian-American kids in a small town where diversity was uncommon. Too tall and too thin, he wore thick Coke-bottle glasses,...
Another Day in the Frontal Lobe: A Brain Surgeon Exposes Life on the Inside
| Author | Katrina Firlik |
| ISBN | 1400063205 |
Katrina Firlik is a neurosurgeon, one of only two hundred or so women among the alpha males who dominate this high-pressure, high-prestige medical specialty. She is also a superbly gifted writer–witty, insightful, at once deeply humane and refreshingly wry. In Another Day in the Frontal Lobe,...
Trauma Junkie: Memoirs of an Emergency Flight Nurse
| Author | Janice Hudson |
| ISBN | 1552095738 |
Trauma junkies are people who feed on danger and stress. They do their best work under pressure. Janice Hudson was an adrenaline-charged emergency room nurse in a San Francisco-area hospital when a friend told her about CALSTAR, a fledgling helicopter ambulance service with an opening for a flight...
The Night Shift: Real Life In The Heart Of The E.R.
| Author | Brian Goldman |
| ISBN | 1554683912 |
Dr. Brian Goldman is both an emergency room physician at Mount Sinai and a prominent medical journalist. Never one to shy away from controversy, Goldman specializes in kicking open the doors to the medical establishment, revealing what really goes on behind the scenes -- and in the minds of doctors...
These Colors Don't Run: A Collection of Reader-Submitted Medical Stories
If you're a long-time fan of either series, you know what to expect when you crack open the cover of the 18th volume!
If you're new to the series, come on in. You can pick up any volume that interests you, as there is no story you need to follow from one volume to the next.
Highlights of this...
Oh Sh*t, I Almost Killed You! A Little Book of Big Things Nursing School Forgot to Teach You
Do no harm. Take no sh*t. Whether you're a new nurse or a veteran member of the clan, the nursing learning curve is a vast one. Part how-to-guide with a touch of memoir thrown in, take the time to laugh and cry with an author that says what everyone else in the field is thinking. Sonja M. Schwartzbach, BSN,...
Letters from the Pit: Stories of a Physician's Odyssey in Emergency Medicine
In a culture of comic book heroes, it's gratifying to be reminded that there are real heroes out there. Every day the staff of emergency rooms throughout the world are saving lives - 24/7/365. Dr. Patrick Crocker provides us an intimate glimpse into the growing mind of an emergency physician, from residency...
“I can’t believe I did that! I only had two beers.” Yes, as improbable as it seems, someone actually did that—and much more. Such was the opening line to many patient encounters in the emergency departments and clinics where I spent my career as a physician. Shadow me back through the years in...
Through the Eyes of a Young Physician Assistant
| Author | Sean Conroy |
| ISBN | 1941799272 |
Sean Conroy started his career in the lab, but had a burning desire to enter the clinical side of medicine as a physician assistant. After completing the first two years of book work, he spent a year learning from doctors, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, and others on the front lines of medicine...
Miracles and Mayhem in the ER: Unbelievable True Stories from an Emergency Room Doctor
In Miracles and Mayhem in the ER , Dr. Brent Russell shares true-life stories of his early days as an Emergency Room doctor. Contemplative and oftentimes hilarious, Dr. Russell leads the reader through the glass doors and down the narrow halls of the ER where desperate patients, young and old, come to...
Cook County ICU: 30 Years of Unforgettable Patients and Odd Cases
| Author | Cory Franklin |
| ISBN | 0897339258 |
An inside look at one of the nation's most famous public hospitals, Cook County, as seen through the eyes of its longtime Director of Intensive Care, Dr. Cory Franklin.
Filled with stories of strange medical cases and unforgettable patients culled from a thirty-year career in medicine, Cook...
Playing God: The Evolution of a Modern Surgeon
| Author | Anthony Youn |
| ISBN | 1642931284 |
What does it mean to be a doctor?
“I am a doctor.”
Every year, thousands of medical school graduates utter these four simple words. But as you will see in Playing God, earning an M.D. is just the first step to becoming a real physician.
In this page-turning, thrilling, and...
