Alexandra Robbins

The Nurses (eBook, ePUB)

A Year of Secrets, Drama, and Miracles with the Heroes of the Hospital

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A New York Times bestseller. "A funny, intimate, and often jaw-dropping account of life behind the scenes."¿PeopleNurses is the compelling story of the year in the life of four nurses, and the drama, unsung heroism, and unique sisterhood of nursing¿one of the world's most important professions (nurses save lives every day), and one of the world's most dangerous, filled with violence, trauma, and PTSD. In following four nurses, Alexandra Robbins creates sympathetic characters while diving deep into their world of controlled chaos. It's a world of hazing¿"nurses eat their young." Sex¿not exactly like on TV, but surprising just the same. Drug abuse¿disproportionately a problem among the best and the brightest, and a constant temptation. And bullying¿by peers, by patients, by hospital bureaucrats, and especially by doctors, an epidemic described as lurking in the "shadowy, dark corners of our profession."...

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Workman Publishing Company
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. April 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780761184232
• Artikelnr.: 43814511

Autorenporträt

Alexandra Robbins is an award-winning journalist and author of four New York Times bestsellers, including Pledged and The Geeks Shall Inherit the Earth. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, The New York Times, The Atlantic, and other publications, and she's appeared on numerous television shows, including 60 Minutes, the Today show, Oprah, The Colbert Report, and more.