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One Nurse, Twelve Hours, Four Patients' Lives
Algonquin
October 2015
On Sale: September 22, 2015
272 pages
ISBN: 161620320X
EAN: 9781616203207
Kindle: B00U6YR09Y
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Non-Fiction
In a book as eye-opening as it is riveting, practicing
nurse and New York Times columnist Theresa Brown invites us
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’s
cancer ward. In the span of twelve hours, lives can be
lost, life-altering medical treatment decisions made, and
dreams fulfilled or irrevocably stolen. In Brown’s 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 shift’s end, we have
witnessed something profound about hope and healing and
humanity. Every day, Theresa Brown holds patients' lives in her
hands. On this day there are four. There is Mr. Hampton, a
patient with lymphoma to whom Brown is charged with
administering a powerful drug that could cure him--or kill
him; Sheila, who may have been dangerously misdiagnosed;
Candace, a returning patient who arrives (perhaps
advisedly) with her own disinfectant wipes, cleansing
rituals, and demands; and Dorothy, who after six weeks in
the hospital may finally go home. Prioritizing and
ministering to their needs takes the kind of skill,
sensitivity, and, yes, humor that enable a nurse to be a
patient’s most ardent advocate in a medical system marked
by heartbreaking dysfunction as well as miraculous success.
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