Tales From the ER and Other Places

Author: Jeff Wade MD
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1728331684
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 247

Book Description
After being an ER doctor for over twenty years, traveling all over, running international medical missions, and working at a cancer hospital, Jeff Wade has collected many stories. Some of these he has been telling for decades. In Tales from the ER and Other Places, Dr. Wade shares a lifetime of interesting, funny, educational, and sometimes disgusting stories, with medicine being at the center of most. And whether the stories are incredible and humorous or touching and sad, they offer a compelling and engaging window into the life and times of a doctor and his passions --and his patients.

Angels in the ER

Author: Robert D. Lesslie
Publisher: Harvest House Publishers
ISBN: 0736931201
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 242

Book Description
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 ER is a difficult and challenging place to be. Yet the same pressures and stresses that make this place so challenging also provide an opportunity to experience some of life's greatest wonders and mysteries." Dr. Lesslie illuminates messages of hope while sharing fast-paced, captivating stories about discovering lessons from the ER frontline watching everyday miracles unfold holding on to faith during tragedy and triumph embracing the healing balm of hope For anyone who enjoys true stories of the wonders of the human spirit, this immensely popular book is a reminder that hope can turn emergencies into opportunities and trials into demonstrations of God's grace.

The Lady Whose Mouth I Set on Fire

Author: McAnonymous
Publisher: Katydid Books
ISBN: 9781735575131
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 228

Book Description
Life pours into emergency departments with a distinct flavor. The Lady Whose Mouth I Set on Fire . . . and Other True Tales from the ER gives you a big helping of this dish with dozens of stories that are too bizarre, too horrific, or too hilarious to be true--but they are. Every single story is true and can be relied upon for the reader's education and enlightenment in medicine or in life. The author, an emergency physician with three decades worth of tales, is looking hard to find humor anywhere he can. Laughter may not always be the best medicine, but it's sometimes the only one."I would like to go on record as saying this is the best book I have ever read," gushes an anonymous reader.

The Blood of Strangers

Author: Frank Huyler
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520262514
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 165

Book Description
Reminiscent of Chekhov's stories, The Blood of Strangers is a visceral portrayal of a physician's encounters with the highly charged world of an emergency room. In this collection of spare and elegant stories, Dr. Frank Huyler reveals a side of medicine where small moments—the intricacy of suturing a facial wound, the bath a patient receives from her husband and daughter—interweave with the lives and deaths of the desperately sick and injured. The author presents an array of fascinating characters, both patients and doctors—a neurosurgeon who practices witchcraft, a trauma surgeon who unexpectedly commits suicide, a wounded murderer, a man chased across the New Mexico desert by a heat-seeking missile. At times surreal, at times lyrical, at times brutal and terrifying, The Blood of Strangers is a literary work that emerges from one of the most dramatic specialties of modern medicine. This deeply affecting first book has been described by one early reader as "the best doctor collection I have seen since William Carlos Williams's The Doctor Stories."

Miracles in the ER

Author: Robert D. Lesslie
Publisher: Harvest House Publishers
ISBN: 0736954848
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 227

Book Description
You’ve heard about them. Extraordinary...unexplainable...seemingly miraculous true stories that couldn’t have happened—but did. Real-life stories of life changes, answered prayers, inner and outer healing where they appeared impossible. Again and again, bestselling author Dr. Robert Lesslie has encountered such Miracles in the ER during his decades of experience in emergency medicine. In these vignettes—all true stories—Dr. Lesslie chronicles miracles of... physical healing joy and forgiveness restored relationships time granted and spent angels—human and otherwise These touching, dramatic, thought-provoking snapshots of life will grace you with hope and prompt you to look more closely for the miracle stories around you that so often go unseen and untold.

People of the Er

Author: Philip Allen Green, M.d.
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781548222956
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 178

Book Description
Standing in the trauma room of an emergency department is like standing at ground zero of a nuclear reaction, only it's not radiation that is released-but stories. Stories that are told and retold, sometimes just until the end of the shift, but sometimes for decades. A survivor of domestic violence makes it to the hospital but cannot trust anyone. An anonymous man passes away after being taken to the emergency room, and no one can identify him. The spouse of a cancer patient must decide whether to force her to undergo chemotherapy or to let her pass away in peace. These stories-and all the rest in People of the ER-grapple with what it means to be human in the face of trauma and death. Written by the author of Trauma Room Two, People of the ER, delves deeper into the lives of the patients and staff that work in a small, rural emergency room.

Angels on Call

Author: Robert D. Lesslie
Publisher: Harvest House Publishers
ISBN: 0736968776
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 271

Book Description
Who Is on Call for You? Whether they walk, or are wheeled, or are carried in, every person in the ER has a unique story to tell. And every one of them needs an angel. Bestselling author Robert Lesslie (over 400,000 books sold) invites you to experience the heart-pounding drama he's witnessed firsthand during his 30-plus years as an ER doctor. Go on call with Dr. Lesslie and encounter an unusual injury that puts two burly bikers flat on their backs a resilient cancer patient with an indomitable spirit a doctor's mixed emotions over a young woman's tragic overdose a medical instructor's unforgettable lesson on the importance of observation a pair of overzealous caregivers who give an elderly man the scare of a lifetime In these touching true stories (and many more), you'll discover that angels come in many forms, sent by a caring God who is always on call when you need Him most.

Tornado of Life

Author: Jay Baruch
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262046970
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 320

Book Description
Stories from the ER: a doctor shows how empathy, creativity, and imagination are the cornerstones of clinical care. To be an emergency room doctor is to be a professional listener to stories. Each patient presents a story; finding the heart of that story is the doctor’s most critical task. More technology, more tests, and more data won’t work if doctors get the story wrong. Empathy, creativity, and imagination are the cornerstones of clinical care. In Tornado of Life, ER physician Jay Baruch offers a series of short, powerful, and affecting essays that capture the stories of ER patients in all their complexity and messiness. Patients come to the ER with lives troubled by scales of misfortune that have little to do with disease or injury. ER doctors must be problem-finders before they are problem-solvers. Cheryl, for example, whose story is a chaos narrative of “and this happened, and then that happened, and then, and then and then and then,” tells Baruch she is "stuck in a tornado of life.” What will help her, and what will help Mr. K., who seems like a textbook case of post-combat PTSD but turns out not to be? Baruch describes, among other things, the emergency of loneliness (invoking Chekhov, another doctor-writer); his own (frightening) experience as a patient; the patient who demanded a hug; and emergency medicine during COVID-19. These stories often end without closure or solutions. The patients are discharged into the world. But if they’re lucky, the doctor has listened to their stories as well as treated them.

Living and Dying in Brick City

Author: Sampson Davis
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 0812982347
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 258

Book Description
An urgent picture of medical care in our cities, written by an emergency room physician (and co-author of the New York Times bestseller The Pact) who grew up in the very neighborhood he is now serving “A pull-no-punches look at health care from a seldom-heard sector . . . Living and Dying isn’t a sky-is-falling chronicle. It’s a real, gutsy view of a city hospital.”—Essence In this book, Dr. Sampson Davis looks at the healthcare crisis in the inner city from a rare perspective: as a doctor who works on the front line of emergency medical care in the community where he grew up, and as a member of that community who has faced the same challenges as the people he treats every day. He also offers invaluable practical advice for those living in such communities, where conditions like asthma, heart disease, stroke, obesity, and AIDS are disproportionately endemic. Dr. Davis’s sister, a drug addict, died of AIDS; his brother is now paralyzed and confined to a wheelchair as a result of a bar fight; and he himself did time in juvenile detention—a wake-up call that changed his life. He recounts recognizing a young man who is brought to the E.R. with critical gunshot wounds as someone who was arrested with him when he was a teenager during a robbery gone bad; describes a patient whose case of sickle-cell anemia rouses an ethical dilemma; and explains the difficulty he has convincing his landlord and friend, an older woman, to go to the hospital for much-needed treatment. With empathy and hard-earned wisdom, Living and Dying in Brick City is an important resource guide for anyone at risk, anyone close to those at risk, and anyone who cares about the fate of our cities.

ER Confessional

Author: Kyle Smith
Publisher: Brown Books
ISBN: 9781933285924
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 196

Book Description
If you like E.R., Scrubs, or Grey's Anatomy, you're going to love the hilarious and often touching ER Confessional. Take a look inside what Dr. Smith affectionately refers to as the ?beloved E.R.' With a dry wit and plenty of southern charm, he prescribes a healthy dose of the funniest'and most heart-wrenching'true-life emergency room experiences to ever come wheeling out of the hospital! Dr. Smith cleverly chronicles twenty years? worth of incredible events while interlocking a second story that details the healing process of a lovesick friend. This gurney ride full of twists and turns will have you laughing out loud as Dr. Smith introduces a host of patients with the zaniest afflictions you could ever imagine. But, be prepared to be side-swiped with the emotion and anguish that accompany the realization that no doctor can save every patient.