Trauma: My Life as an Emergency Surgeon
10 best books like Trauma: My Life as an Emergency Surgeon (James Cole): Twelve Patients: Life and Death at Bellevue Hospital, Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science, How Doctors Think, Every Patient Tells a Story: Medical Mysteries and the Art of Diagnosis, Morgue: A Life in Death, Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery, Hot Lights, Cold Steel: Life, Death and Sleepless Nights in a Surgeon's First Years, Something for the Pain: Compassion and Burnout in the ER, Emergency!: True Stories From The Nation's ERs, BOB Books Set 1: Beginning Readers
Twelve Patients: Life and Death at Bellevue Hospital
| Author | Eric Manheimer |
| ISBN | 1455503886 |
The inspiration for the NBC drama New Amsterdam and in the spirit of Oliver Sacks, this intensely involving memoir from a former medical director of a major NYC hospital looks poignantly at patients' lives and reveals the author's own battle with cancer.
Dr. Manheimer describes the plights...
Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science
| Author | Atul Gawande |
| ISBN | 0312421702 |
A year or more ago, I mistakenly placed a review for Gawande's book Better under this title. I have fixed the mix up, and I have now read Complications.
Gawande is pure pleasure to read. His writing is fluid and full of germane examples as he addresses big issues like error and incompetence as well...
| Author | Jerome Groopman |
| ISBN | 0618610030 |
On average, a physician will interrupt a patient describing her symptoms within eighteen seconds. In that short time, many doctors decide on the likely diagnosis and best treatment. Often, decisions made this way are correct, but at crucial moments they can also be wrong -- with catastrophic consequences....
Every Patient Tells a Story: Medical Mysteries and the Art of Diagnosis
A riveting exploration of the most difficult and important part of what doctors do, by Yale School of Medicine physician Dr. Lisa Sanders, author of the monthly New York Times Magazine column "Diagnosis," the inspiration for the hit Fox TV series House, M.D.
The experience of being ill can...
| Author | Vincent DiMaio |
| ISBN | 1250067146 |
In this clear-eyed, gritty, and enthralling narrative, Dr. Vincent DiMaio and veteran crime writer Ron Franscell guide us behind the morgue doors to tell a fascinating life story through the cases that have made Di Maio famous-from the exhumation of assassin Lee Harvey Oswald to the complex issues...
Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery
| Author | Henry Marsh |
| ISBN | 0297869876 |
What is it like to be a brain surgeon? How does it feel to hold someone's life in your hands, to cut into the stuff that creates thought, feeling, and reason? How do you live with the consequences of performing a potentially lifesaving operation when it all goes wrong?
In neurosurgery, more than...
Hot Lights, Cold Steel: Life, Death and Sleepless Nights in a Surgeon's First Years
| Author | Michael J. Collins |
| ISBN | 0312352697 |
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...
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...
Emergency!: True Stories From The Nation's ERs
| Author | Mark Brown |
| ISBN | 0312962657 |
* A suicide attempt by an "explosive" young man...
* The "hidden secrets" of a grotesquely obese patient...
* A couple whose amorous acrobatics get out of hand...
* A child brought back from the dead...
Bristling with the raw power of reality, this riveting book recounts true tales...
BOB Books Set 1: Beginning Readers
| Author | Bobby Lynn Maslen |
| ISBN | 0439845009 |
Bob Books are back, now with a bright, unique box display and colored illustrations throughout that make learning to read even more fun!
Bob Books Set 1: Beginning Readers
Teach a child letter sounds with Bob Books Set 1! With four letters in the first story, children can read a whole...
| Author | Dave Hnida |
| ISBN | 1416599576 |
From dust jacket flap: In 2004, at the age of 48, Dr. Dave Hnida, a family physician from Littleton, Colorado, volunteered to be deployed to Iraq and spent a tour of duty as a battalion surgeon with a combat unit. In 2007, he went back, this time as a trauma chief at one of the busiest Combat Support Hospitals...
The Intern Blues: The Timeless Classic About the Making of a Doctor
| Author | Robert Marion |
| ISBN | 0060937092 |
While supervising a small group of interns at a major New York medical center, Dr. Robert Marion asked three of them to keep a careful diary over the course of a year. Andy, Mark, and Amy vividly describe their real-life lessons in treating very sick children; confronting child abuse and the awful human...
Admissions: Life as a Brain Surgeon
| Author | Henry Marsh |
| ISBN | 1250127262 |
Henry Marsh has spent a lifetime operating on the surgical front line. There have been exhilarating highs and devastating lows, but his love for the practice of neurosurgery has never wavered.
Following the publication of his celebrated New York Times bestseller Do No Harm, Marsh retired...
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...
“If We’re So Good at Continuous Improvement, Why Aren’t Profits Better?”
I work for the Lean /Enterprise Institute, the publisher of The Work of Management, so I’m not going to pretend that I can be completely objective in my review. What I’ll do is lay out why I think the book is...
Angels in the ER: Inspiring True Stories from an Emergency Room Doctor
| Author | Robert D. Lesslie |
| ISBN | 0736923152 |
Twenty-five years in the ER could become a résumé for despair, but for bestselling author Dr. Robert D. Lesslie, it's a foundation for inspiring stories of everyday "angels"—friends, nurses, doctors, patients, and even strangers who offer love, help, and support in the midst of trouble.
"The...
Emergency Laughter: It Wasn't Funny When It Happened, But it is Now!
Real life medical drama is OK… but true stories of emergency medicine that make you laugh out loud are better!
Mike Cyra's comedic storytelling style of writing is hilarious. Experience what it's like to drive an Emergency Vehicle through traffic. Learn how not to deliver a baby; how to fake unconsciousness;...
