Tornado of life : a doctor's journey through constraints and creativity in the ER / Jay Baruch.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Baruch, Jay, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hospitals--Emergency services.

Hospitals.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (320 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2022]

Summary:

"An exploration of how caring for ER patients is more than blood and mayhem. It is the practice of being attentive to patients complicated and often broken stories as well as their broken bodies"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

1 Chief Complaint

2 Not the Beginning

I Vulnerability

3 Tornado of Life

4 Backstory

Coda

5 Why Medicine Needs More Not-­Knowing

6 Ambassador to Nightmares

7 Catheters

8 When Loneliness Is an Emergency

9 Trust as Protection

10 Upside Down

11 Waiting for the Surge

12 Narrative Risks: Shape, Place, and Gutter

13 Zebras

14 Hug, or Ugh

II Constraints

15 Moving On

16 Compassion at the Crossroads

17 Pain: A Story That's Hard to Treat

18 There's Dying, and Dying Now

19 Holding On, Letting Go

20 When Waiting Feels Immoral

21 Benefit Paradox

22 Unsafe Discharge

23 Big Incision

24 To Err Is to Be a Physician

25 When Sensitivity Is a Liability

26 Why Won't My Patient Act Like a Jerk?

27 Wheelchair

III Possibility

28 Caring for the Caregiver

29 Oktoberfest

30 Dr. Douchebag

31 In Defense of Cheaper Stethoscopes

32 The Appendix: Ancient Organ for the Modern Age

33 Judging Patients

34 A Knock on the Door

35 Paper Scrubs

36 The Ashtray

37 The Patient Who Wanted Nothing

38 Can We Write a Better Story for Ourselves?

39 Not an Ending

40 Writing Stories of Medicine

41 One Last Thing

Acknowledgments

Notes

31 In Defense of Cheaper Stethoscopes.

32 The Appendix: Ancient Organ for the Modern Age

Index.

Notes:

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-262-37011-5

0-262-37010-7

OCLC:

1338840126