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Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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Practicing nurse and New York Times columnist Theresa Brown invites readers to experience not just a day in the life of a nurse but all the life that happens in just one day on a hospital cancer ward. In her skilled hands, as both a dedicated nurse and an insightful chronicler of events, we are given an unprecedented view into the individual struggles as well as the larger truths about medicine in this country, and by the end of the shift, we have...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
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“Among all the recent books on medicine, Critical Care stands alone.“ — Pauline Chen, author of Final Exam
“A must read for anyone who wants to understand healthcare. Extraordinary.” — Elizabeth Cohen, MPH, CNN Senior Medical Correspondent
Critical Care is the powerful and absorbing memoir of Theresa Brown—a regular contributor to the New York Times blog “Well”—about
...Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"When a cancer nurse becomes a cancer patient, she has to confront the most critical, terrified, sometimes furious patient she's ever encountered: herself. A frank look at struggling with illness while navigating the health care maze."--
Despite training and years of experience as an oncology and hospice nurse, Brown found it difficult to navigate the medical maze when she learned she had breast cancer. Her experience shows how our for-profit health-care...