Emergency Doctor
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Book Overview
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.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0060595027
ISBN13:9780060595029
Release Date:May 2004
Publisher:Harper Perennial
Length:357 Pages
Weight:0.15 lbs.
Dimensions:0.9" x 5.4" x 8.0"
Customer Reviews
3 ratings
Life at Bellevue
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 16 years ago
Ziegler writes about the day-to-day travails of the ER staff at one of the nation's oldest hospitals, Bellevue. The book starts off with a wild case: an overturned crane has trapped a woman and paramedics and doctors rush to save her before amputation becomes an option. Some chapters are devoted to the doctors' personal lives, but the real action only takes place in the hospital. Given that the book was published in 1987, medicine has advanced to the point where this book could be considered a historical narrative, but it's still entertaining.
Good Read
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 23 years ago
I like medical novels and found this one a really good read. Good beach book.
An idealistic perspective
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 24 years ago
A very enjoyable, quick read. What struck me the most about this book was the differences in perspective since the time of it's writing (1987)--it mentions patients that complain about doctors wearing gloves when that is now standard, and expected, procedure. It describes the infancy of managed care and all it's depersonalization of those it's supposed to protect and care for. And most of all, it describes doctors, nurses, and other hospital staff who always put the patient first, who see their jobs as noble and go about it completely humble and without ego. Perhaps exposure to such tv shows as ER and Chicago Hope in more recent years have given laymen a more cold/cynical view of things, but some times the professionals in this book seem almost too good to be true. On the other hand, the emergencies described are fascinating and compelling.
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