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Just Here Trying to Save a Few Lives: Tales of Life and Death from the ER

10 best books like Just Here Trying to Save a Few Lives: Tales of Life and Death from the ER (Pamela Grim): She-Wolves: The Women Who Ruled England Before Elizabeth, All Things Wise and Wonderful, Blood and Thunder: An Epic of the American West, The Wives of Henry VIII, The Twelve Caesars, When the Air Hits Your Brain: Tales of Neurosurgery, The Egg and I, Our Hearts Were Young and Gay: An Unforgettable Comic Chronicle of Innocents Abroad in the 1920s, Second Opinions: Eight Clinical Dramas of Decision Making on the Front Lines of Medicine, Hot Lights, Cold Steel: Life, Death and Sleepless Nights in a Surgeon's First Years

She-Wolves: The Women Who Ruled England Before Elizabeth
AuthorHelen Castor
ISBN0571237053
When Edward VI - Henry VIII’s longed-for son - died in 1553, extraordinarily, there was no one left to claim the title King of England. For the first time, all the contenders for the crown were female.

In 1553, England was about to experience the ‘monstrous regiment’ - the unnatural rule...
All Things Wise and Wonderful
AuthorJames Herriot
ISBN0312335288
The third volume in the multimillion copy bestselling series

Readers adored James Herriot's tales of his life as a Yorkshire animal doctor in All Creatures Great and Small and All Things Bright and Beautiful. Now here's a third delightful volume of memoirs rich with Herriot's own brand of...
Blood and Thunder: An Epic of the American West
AuthorHampton Sides
ISBN0385507771
A Magnificent History of How the West Was Really Won—a Sweeping Tale of Shame and Glory

In the fall of 1846 the venerable Navajo warrior Narbona, greatest of his people’s chieftains, looked down upon the small town of Santa Fe, the stronghold of the Mexican settlers he had been fighting...
The Wives of Henry VIII
AuthorAntonia Fraser
ISBN0140132937
In a sweeping narrative, Fraser traces the cultural, familial and political roots of each of Henry's queens, pushes aside the stereotypes that have long defined them, and illuminates the complex character of each. The result is a superb work of history through which these six women become as memorable...
The Twelve Caesars
AuthorSuetonius
ISBN0140449213
As private secretary to the Emperor Hadrian, Suetonius gained access to the imperial archives and used them (along with eye-witness accounts) to produce one of the most colorful biographical works in history. The Twelve Caesars chronicles the public careers and private lives of the men who wielded...
When the Air Hits Your Brain: Tales of Neurosurgery
AuthorFrank T. Vertosick Jr.
"This book should be read by every medical student, doctor and present or potential patient. In other words, by all of us."
--Dr. Bernie Siegel, author of Love, Medicine and Miracles

Rule One for the neurologist in residence: "You ain't never the same when the air hits your brain." In this...
The Egg and I
AuthorBetty MacDonald
ISBN0704102471
When Betty MacDonald married a marine and moved to a small chicken farm on the Olympic Peninsula in Washington State, she was largely unprepared for the rigors of life in the wild. With no running water, no electricity, a house in need of constant repair, and days that ran from four in the morning to nine...
Our Hearts Were Young and Gay: An Unforgettable Comic Chronicle of Innocents Abroad in the 1920s
AuthorCornelia Otis Skinner
ISBN1579124364
Actress Cornelia Otis Skinner and journalist Emily Kimbrough offer a lighthearted, hilarious memoir of their European tour in the 1920s, when they were fresh out of college from Bryn Mawr. Some of the more amusing anecdotes involve a pair of rabbit-skin capes that begin shedding at the most inopportune...
Second Opinions: Eight Clinical Dramas of Decision Making on the Front Lines of Medicine
AuthorJerome Groopman
ISBN0140298622
A unique insider's view of today's complex and often contentious world of medicine. Anxious about the prognosis, lost in a blur of technical jargon, and fatigued from worry or pain, people who are ill are easily overwhelmed by treatment choices. Told through eight gripping clinical dramas, Second...
Hot Lights, Cold Steel: Life, Death and Sleepless Nights in a Surgeon's First Years
AuthorMichael J. Collins
ISBN0312352697
When Michael Collins decides to become a surgeon, he is totally unprepared for the chaotic life of a resident at a major hospital. A natural overachiever, Collins' success, in college and medical school led to a surgical residency at one of the most respected medical centers in the world, the famed Mayo...
Weekends at Bellevue: Nine Years on the Night Shift at the Psych E.R.
AuthorJulie Holland
ISBN0553807668
I don't usually take the time to write a review, but as a psychology major and a human being, I was very disappointed by the actions of Julie Holland as she recounts them in this memoir.

The stories of patients in the ER were often interesting, but I was consistently bothered by how politically...
One Doctor: Close Calls, Cold Cases and the Mystery of Medicine
AuthorBrendan Reilly
ISBN1476726299
An epic story told by a unique voice in American medicine, One Doctor describes life-changing experiences in the career of a distinguished physician. In riveting first-person prose, Dr. Brendan Reilly takes us to the front lines of medicine today. Whipsawed by daily crises and frustrations, Reilly...
On Call: A Doctor's Days and Nights in Residency
AuthorEmily R. Transue
ISBN0312324847
On Call begins with a newly-minted doctor checking in for her first day of residency--wearing the long white coat of an MD and being called "Doctor" for the first time. Having studied at Yale and Dartmouth, Dr. Emily Transue arrives in Seattle to start her internship in Internal Medicine just after graduating...
Something for the Pain: Compassion and Burnout in the ER
AuthorPaul Austin
ISBN0393337790
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...
Ranger Confidential: Living, Working, and Dying in the National Parks
AuthorAndrea Lankford
ISBN0762752637
The real stories behind the scenery of America’s national parks

 For twelve years, Andrea Lankford lived in the biggest, most impressive national parks in the world, working a job she loved. She chaperoned baby sea turtles on their journey to sea. She pursued bad guys on her galloping patrol...
Answering 911: Life in the Hot Seat
AuthorCaroline Burau
ISBN0873515692
You answer a call from a fourteen-year-old boy asking for someone to arrest his mother, who is smoking crack in their bathroom. You talk with him until the cops arrive, making sure there are no weapons around and learning that his favorite subject in school is lunch. Five minutes later, you have to deal...
The Missing Ink
AuthorKaren E. Olson
ISBN0451227468
The Missing Ink is the first book in Tattoo Shop Mystery series. I was so in the mood for this type of book. I liked the setting, the main character and the story so much that I'll definitely read the rest of the books in the series.

The mystery of the missing girl was well plotted. You suspect everyone...
Birth Matters: A Midwife's Manifesta
AuthorIna May Gaskin
ISBN1583229272
Renowned for her practice's exemplary results and low intervention rates, Ina May Gaskin has gained international notoriety for promoting natural birth. She is a much-beloved leader of a movement that seeks to stop the hyper-medicalization of birth—which has lead to nearly a third of hospital...
Around the World in a Bad Mood!: Confessions of a Flight Attendant
AuthorRene Foss
ISBN0786890118
It was a nice little one-time read about the life of a flight attendant. I really like these real-life stories. They might not be great literary pieces, but you have to applaud the effort of a person who is not a professional writer to write and sell an interesting whole more than 200 page book about their...
Walk on Water: The Miracle of Saving Children's Lives
AuthorMichael Ruhlman
ISBN0142004111
Described by one surgeon as “soul-crushing, diamond-making stress,” surgery on congenital heart defects is arguably the most difficult of all surgical specialties. Drawing back the hospital curtain for a unique and captivating look at the extraordinary skill and dangerous politics of critical...
Another Day in the Frontal Lobe: A Brain Surgeon Exposes Life on the Inside
AuthorKatrina Firlik
ISBN1400063205
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,...
The Job: True Tales from the Life of a New York City Cop
AuthorSteve Osborne
ISBN0385539622
“HOW YA DOIN’?”

With these four syllables, delivered in an unmistakably authentic New York accent, Steve Osborne has riveted thousands of people at the legendary storytelling venue The Moth (and many tens of thousands more via YouTube) with his hilarious, profane, and touching tales...
A Fatal Twist of Lemon
AuthorPatrice Greenwood
ISBN1611381843
Cops drink coffee.

They don't belong in Ellen Rosings's Victorian tearoom. But when her opening day thank-you tea ends in the murder of the president of the Santa Fe Preservation Trust, the police invade her haven. Enter Detective Tony Aragon: attractive and unsympathetic, with a chip on...
A Sprig of Blossomed Thorn
AuthorPatrice Greenwood
Notorious for failed relationships.

Ellen Rosings knows that's true of cops. Detective Tony Aragon has even said it about himself, or something like it. Despite her misgivings, she is drawn to him, but can he reach past a cop's cynicism to trust her?

As summer surrounds her Wisteria...
A Masquerade of Muertos
AuthorPatrice Greenwood
Goths reenacting Poe's “The Masque of the Red Death” on Halloween night...what could possibly go wrong?

Despite her desire to make the Wisteria Tearoom a haven of tranquility, Ellen Rosings can't rid her parlors of the shadow of death. Fascinated with the tearoom's resident ghost, her...
An Aria of Omens
AuthorPatrice Greenwood
ISBN1611383994
Wisteria Tearoom owner Ellen Rosings coaxes Detective Tony Aragón to go with her to the Santa Fe Opera, but the magnificent performance of Tosca ends in disaster. In bizarre counterpoint to the opera’s plot, the leading man is murdered in his dressing room, and Tony must rush to secure the crime scene....
A Bodkin for the Bride
AuthorPatrice Greenwood
ISBN1611384966
Something old, something new, something dead...

It’s autumn in Santa Fe, and Ellen Rosings is planning her Aunt Nat’s wedding at the Wisteria Tearoom. Her progress is derailed by a dead body—yes, another one—that she finds in her aunt’s driveway.

The corpse is an artist...
As Red as Any Blood
AuthorPatrice Greenwood
Yuletide in Santa Fe: biscochitos, farolitos, Las Posadas, music...and murder.

Ellen Rosings does not have time for murder investigations. It’s December, and the Wisteria Tearoom is awash in shoppers, cookies, and groups of strange women brought to tea by the eccentric Bird Woman.
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Ink Flamingos
AuthorKaren E. Olson
ISBN0451233794
I've found out that Tattoo Shop Mystery series ends with this book. On the one hand, I am truly sorry because I really like these characters and the whole feeling I get from the series. On the other, though, the author has ended it in the best way possible and at just the right moment for a a reader to feel like...
Pretty in Ink
AuthorKaren E. Olson
ISBN0451229622
Murder in the city of sin...

Brett Kavanaugh is a tattoo artist and owner of Vegas's hottest tattoo shop, The Painted Lady. And in her spare time, she does some sleuthing. After Brett and company ink Sin City's newest drag queens, they're invited to opening night at the strip's glamorous Nylon...
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