"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"--
"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"--
Jay Baruch, a practicing emergency room physician, is Professor of Emergency Medicine at Alpert Medical School of Brown University and the author of two award-winning short fiction collections, What's Left Out and Fourteen Stories: Doctors, Patients, and Other Strangers.
Inhaltsangabe
1 Chief Complaint 1 2 Not the Beginning 3 Part I: Vulnerability 3 Tornado of Life 11 4 Backstory 19 5 Why Medicine Needs More Not-Knowing 27 6 Ambassador to Nightmares 37 7 Catheters 47 8 When Loneliness Is an Emergency 49 9 Trust as Protection 55 10 Upside Down 61 11 Waiting for the Surge 71 12 Narrative Risks: Shape, Place, and Gutter 75 13 Zebras 85 14 Hug, or Ugh 87 Part II: Constraints 15 Moving On 99 16 Compassion at the Crossroads 107 17 Pain: A Story That's Hard to Treat 115 18 There's Dying, and Dying Now 125 19 Holding On, Letting Go 135 20 When Waiting Feels Immoral 139 21 Benefit Paradox 149 22 Unsafe Discharge 159 23 Big Incision 161 24 To Err Is to Be a Physician 171 25 When Sensitivity Is a Liability 179 26 Why Won't My Patient Act Like a Jerk? 183 27 Wheelchair 189 Part III: Possibility 28 Caring for the Caregiver 193 29 Oktoberfest 201 30 Dr. Douchebag 203 31 In Defense of Cheaper Stethoscopes 209 32 The Appendix: Ancient Organ for the Modern Age 217 33 Judging Patients 221 34 A Knock on the Door 227 35 Paper Scrubs 229 36 The Ashtray 235 37 The Patient Who Wanted Nothing 241 38 Can We Write a Better Story for Ourselves? 247 39 Not an Ending 253 40 Writing Stories of Medicine 261 41 One Last Thing 265 Acknowledgements 273 Notes 279 Index 299
1 Chief Complaint 1 2 Not the Beginning 3 Part I: Vulnerability 3 Tornado of Life 11 4 Backstory 19 5 Why Medicine Needs More Not-Knowing 27 6 Ambassador to Nightmares 37 7 Catheters 47 8 When Loneliness Is an Emergency 49 9 Trust as Protection 55 10 Upside Down 61 11 Waiting for the Surge 71 12 Narrative Risks: Shape, Place, and Gutter 75 13 Zebras 85 14 Hug, or Ugh 87 Part II: Constraints 15 Moving On 99 16 Compassion at the Crossroads 107 17 Pain: A Story That's Hard to Treat 115 18 There's Dying, and Dying Now 125 19 Holding On, Letting Go 135 20 When Waiting Feels Immoral 139 21 Benefit Paradox 149 22 Unsafe Discharge 159 23 Big Incision 161 24 To Err Is to Be a Physician 171 25 When Sensitivity Is a Liability 179 26 Why Won't My Patient Act Like a Jerk? 183 27 Wheelchair 189 Part III: Possibility 28 Caring for the Caregiver 193 29 Oktoberfest 201 30 Dr. Douchebag 203 31 In Defense of Cheaper Stethoscopes 209 32 The Appendix: Ancient Organ for the Modern Age 217 33 Judging Patients 221 34 A Knock on the Door 227 35 Paper Scrubs 229 36 The Ashtray 235 37 The Patient Who Wanted Nothing 241 38 Can We Write a Better Story for Ourselves? 247 39 Not an Ending 253 40 Writing Stories of Medicine 261 41 One Last Thing 265 Acknowledgements 273 Notes 279 Index 299
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