Trauma

Author: James Cole
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 1429989173
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 351

Book Description
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 of treating victims of gunshot wounds, stabbings, attempted suicides, flesh-eating bacteria, car crashes, industrial accidents, murder, and war, the book also covers the years during Cole's residency training when he was faced with 120-hour work weeks, excessive sleep deprivation, and the pressures of having to manage people dying of traumatic injury, often with little support. Unlike the authors of other medical memoirs, Cole trained to be a surgeon in the military and served as a physician member of a Marine Corps reconnaissance unit, United States Special Operations Command (USSOCOM), and on a Navy Reserve SEAL team. From treating war casualties in Afghanistan and Iraq to his experiences as a civilian trauma surgeon treating alcoholics, drug addicts, criminals, and the mentally deranged, TRAUMA is an intense look at one man's commitment to his country and to those most desperately in need of aid.

Trauma

Author: James Cole
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 9780312552220
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 352

Trauma

Author: Eric Legome
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139500724
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 737

Book Description
Trauma: A Comprehensive Emergency Medicine Approach is a fully illustrated, interdisciplinary overview of trauma. Using both evidence-based approaches and a practical understanding of the emergency department, it gives a broad and in-depth review of trauma care. The entire spectrum of trauma presentations is reviewed from minor soft-tissue injuries through to major life-threatening conditions. Written by over 50 expert contributors, it gives concrete and practical recommendations for evaluation, treatment, consultation and disposition decisions on both common and unusual conditions. Extensive use of photographs, illustrations and key information boxes is used to make the material accessible. Additional sections provide an overview of multiple other issues relating to emergency management of trauma including administrative, nursing, research and legal matters. This book provides an essential reference for anyone who is called upon to provide acute trauma care in the emergency department.

Trauma Red

Author: Peter Rhee
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1476727317
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 237

Book Description
The incredible life story of the trauma surgeon who helped save Congresswoman Gabby Giffords—from his upbringing in South Korea and Africa to the gripping dramas he faces in a typical day as a medical genius. Congresswoman Gabby Giffords is a household name: most people remember that awful day in Arizona in 2011 when she was a victim of an act of violence that left six dead and thirteen wounded. What many people don’t know is that it was Dr. Peter Rhee who played a vital role in her survival. Born in South Korea, Rhee moved with his family to Uganda where he watched his public health surgeon father remove a spear from a man’s belly—and began his lifelong interest in medicine. What came next is this compelling portrait of how one becomes a world class trauma surgeon: the specialized training, the mindset to make critical decisions, and the practiced ability to operate on the human body. Dr. Rhee is so eminent that when President Clinton traveled to China, he was selected to accompany the president as his personal physician. In Trauma Red we learn how Rhee’s experiences were born from the love and sacrifices of determined parents, and of Rhee’s own quest to become as excellent a surgeon as possible. Trauma Red chronicles the patient cases Dr. Rhee has handled over two decades on two distinct battle fronts: In Iraq and Afghanistan, where he served as a frontline US Navy surgeon trying to save young American soldiers, and the urban zones of Los Angeles and Washington, DC, where he has been confronted by an endless stream of bloody victims of civilian violence and accidents. Tough and outspoken, Dr. Rhee isn’t afraid to take on the politics of violence in America and a medical community that too often resists innovation. His story provides an inside look into a fascinating medical world, a place where lives are saved every day.

Trauma Center

Author: Randall Sword
Publisher: Scribner Book Company
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 216

Book Description

The Beauty in Breaking

Author: Michele Harper
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0525537392
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 305

Book Description
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A New York Times Notable Book “Riveting, heartbreaking, sometimes difficult, always inspiring.” —The New York Times Book Review “An incredibly moving memoir about what it means to be a doctor.” —Ellen Pompeo As seen/heard on Fresh Air, The Daily Show with Trevor Noah, NBC Nightly News, MSNBC, Weekend Edition, and more An emergency room physician explores how a life of service to others taught her how to heal herself. Michele Harper is a female, African American emergency room physician in a profession that is overwhelmingly male and white. Brought up in Washington, D.C., in a complicated family, she went to Harvard, where she met her husband. They stayed together through medical school until two months before she was scheduled to join the staff of a hospital in central Philadelphia, when he told her he couldn’t move with her. Her marriage at an end, Harper began her new life in a new city, in a new job, as a newly single woman. In the ensuing years, as Harper learned to become an effective ER physician, bringing insight and empathy to every patient encounter, she came to understand that each of us is broken—physically, emotionally, psychically. How we recognize those breaks, how we try to mend them, and where we go from there are all crucial parts of the healing process. The Beauty in Breaking is the poignant true story of Harper’s journey toward self-healing. Each of the patients Harper writes about taught her something important about recuperation and recovery. How to let go of fear even when the future is murky: How to tell the truth when it’s simpler to overlook it. How to understand that compassion isn’t the same as justice. As she shines a light on the systemic disenfranchisement of the patients she treats as they struggle to maintain their health and dignity, Harper comes to understand the importance of allowing ourselves to make peace with the past as we draw support from the present. In this hopeful, moving, and beautiful book, she passes along the precious, necessary lessons that she has learned as a daughter, a woman, and a physician.

Emergency Care of Minor Trauma in Children

Author: Ffion Davies
Publisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 1315349221
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 275

Book Description
Succinct and highly illustrated, the third edition of this handy pocket guide enables practitioners to successfully manage common minor injuries in children at the point of care. Each chapter has been updated to reflect changes to the treatment for the injury based on recent research and new guidelines. The new edition includes: the latest recommended guidelines and procedures, for instant access to key information generous use of colour, warning boxes, icons, clinical tips and practical advice to help the reader find information at a glance numerous illustrations help explain more difficult concepts detailed guidance on when to treat, how to treat, when to refer or when minor trauma is indicative of a more serious diagnosis. This concise evidence-based book remains an essential purchase for junior doctors, nurse practitioners and emergency care practitioners in the emergency department, minor injury centre or primary care facility. It is a touchstone for all those seeing children following minor injury or trauma.

Top Knife

Author: Asher Hirshberg
Publisher: Tfm Publishing
ISBN: 9781903378229
Category : Emergency medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Operative trauma surgery is a key element of surgical training world-wide, but many surgical trainees have only limited exposure to it throughout their training. The aim of this book is to provide a detailed technical guide for trauma surgery by two experienced surgical educators who are experts in the field. The original concept behind this text ......

Dancing in the Operating Room

Author: Bruce Davis
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781508490777
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 224

Book Description
Would you believe that an Archbishop's blessing could spell the difference between life and death? Or that a 150-year-old artillery shell could still deal death and destruction to those around it? This book takes readers on a journey through a place that most people will only see on one of the worst days of their life. It's a place where surgeons have brought people back from edge of death. Where they have talked to a woman, looked into her eyes as she asked for help, and watched the spark of life vanish from those eyes Dancing in the Operating Room is a memoir, a collection of stories and essays about life, love, and faith in the world of trauma surgery. Some of the stories, like those above, are patient stories; some are uplifting, like the ex-con who steps up to save his sister from making the same mistakes that he did, or the 17 year old girl who fought through sixteen operations to save her leg, but lost in the end, only to find a renewed faith in her family and church. Some are observations of a current problem or a difficult phase of treatment or training. Some are downright depressing and talk about the personal cost of doing high-risk/low-reward surgery. Written by a trauma surgeon with twenty-five years of experience in the high intensity world of acute care surgery, Dancing in the Operating Room is a series of short essays ranging in length from 250 to 2400 words, each written to illustrate a particular experience, a patient story, or to give an insight into the thought process of a surgeon. The situations range from the mundane, to the humorous, to the deadly serious. Only one thing is certain: every trauma shift is a new adventure.

Emergency Doctor

Author: Edward Ziegler
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0060595027
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 388

Book Description
Hundreds of people slam through its doors every day: gun-shot cops, battered kids, drug addicts, and suicides, destitute drunks, homeless people, AIDS sufferers, and accident victims. It's a bizarre parade of humanity looking for help -- in the one place they know they can find it. Welcome to the frontline trenches of medicine: the emergency room of the legendary Bellevue Hospital. Here, an army of doctors and nurses faces the onslaught of young and old, rich and ragged, sick and dying. All day, all night. All year. This is their story -- an around-the-clock drama of the unexpected: a crane falling on a hapless pedestrian; a crazed executive wearing two-thirds of a three-piece suit; a pretty paralegal aide struggling with an on-the-job cocaine overdose; a trauma victim of an East River helicopter crash clinging to life. It's terrifying, tragic, triumphant ... and true.