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Stories From Icu Doctors
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Author : Diane Dennis
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2023-08-24
Stories From Icu Doctors written by Diane Dennis and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-08-24 with Medical categories.
The intensive care unit (ICU) is a specialised hospital ward where the ‘sickest-of-the-sick’ patients, often with life-threatening illness, receive around-the-clock monitoring and life support. There is a wide spectrum of conditions managed, and these present unique challenges for those who work in this field. Written in lay language by experienced ICU doctors (Intensivists), Psychiatrists, healthcare professionals outside of medicine and other stakeholders, “Stories from ICU doctors” provides insight and commentary around the nature and management of stressors for senior doctors working in the ICU. The first five sections of the book describe the distinctive nature of the ICU environment: the human factors involved, the characteristics of thriving Intensivists, the emotions they experience, and how they behave in response. The final three sections provide a synthesis of the advice of these clinicians for both current and future Intensivists, the advice from those who surround the Intensivist both at work and at home; and some concluding remarks about trainee suitability and selection for intensive care medicine. This book is for ICU patients and their families, it is for the families of ICU doctors, it is for doctors from other specialities, it is for the nurses and others that work alongside ICU doctors, and for anyone considering a career in ICU medicine and those who care for them. We share these stories in hope that readers might better appreciate the human side of these doctors, better understand the complex working environment in which they practice, and perhaps better empathize with their stressors and struggles. Most importantly, this book is also for the ICU doctors who currently work within the specialty, to validate their feelings and experiences, and ultimately provide support by reminding them that they are not alone in navigating the difficulties they face.
Seven Signs Of Life
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Author : The Secret Doctor
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2020-01-09
Seven Signs Of Life written by The Secret Doctor and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-01-09 with categories.
An insightful, tender and inspiring memoir that explores the emotional side of a doctor's working life. 'A powerful glimpse into the high stakes of intensive care... Honest, compassionate, sensitive' The Times Grief. Anger. Joy. Fear. Distraction. Disgust. Hope. All emotions we expect to encounter over our lifetime. But what if this was every day? And what if your ability to manage them was the difference between life and death? For a doctor in Intensive Care this is part of the job. Fear in the eyes of a terminally ill patient who pleads with you to not let them die. Grief when an elderly person dies alone. Disgust at having to care for a convicted rapist. But there's also the hope found in the resilience of a family and the joy that comes with a meaningful connection with a patient, however fleeting it may be. These real stories reveal what a doctor sees of humanity as it comes through the revolving door of the hospital. Told through seven emotions that we can all empathise with, this book from the British Medical Association's own Secret Doctor gives us a unique window onto the other side of a hospital experience, showing us how it feels to care for a living. 'Sensitive, honest and, yes, brave... Compulsive reading' NIGELLA LAWSON
Life In The Balance
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Author : Jim Down
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2023-02-23
Life In The Balance written by Jim Down and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-02-23 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
'A remarkably honest memoir of a life spent pulling people back from death' - Adam Kay In these stories, Dr Jim Down brings us to the very heart of the intensive care unit - the section of the hospital where the sickest patients are brought to be cared for until their condition improves. With honesty, humility and a streak of dark humour, Dr Down describes the quietly heroic work of doctors and nurses on the ICU, a place which sits at the cutting edge of medical technology and where a split-second decision can make the difference between life and death. From headline-grabbing cases like that of Alexander Litvinenko, poisoned by Russian agents and admitted to Down's ward, to the appalling aftermath of a train crash, Life in the Balance offers an inside glimpse of intensive care medicine, its immense challenges, deleterious effects on doctors' mental health and enormous rewards. Its profundity will make you reconsider the fragility of life and reframe your understanding of what it means to care.
For The Love Of Babies One Doctor S Stories About Life In The Neonatal Icu
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Author : Sue Hall
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2011
For The Love Of Babies One Doctor S Stories About Life In The Neonatal Icu written by Sue Hall and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with categories.
Seven Signs Of Life
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Author : Aoife Abbey
language : en
Publisher: Arcade
Release Date : 2021-03-02
Seven Signs Of Life written by Aoife Abbey and has been published by Arcade this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-03-02 with Medical categories.
For Readers of Paul Kalanithi’s When Breath Becomes Air, an Intensive Care Doctor Reveals How Everyday Emotions Are Taken to Extremes in the ICU Dr. Aoife Abbey takes us beyond the medical perspective to see the humanity at work inside our hospitals through the eyes of doctors and nurses as they witness and experience the full spectrum of human emotion with every shift. It is their responsibility to mitigate the grief of a family in mourning, calm a patient about to die, and confront their own fear of failure when lives are on the line. Whether they're providing hospice care, tending to victims of car accidents or violent attacks, determining the correct treatment for someone displaying signs of a heart-attack or stroke, and managing staff, stress is a doctor's number one companion. Cycling through the whirlwind of emotion that accompanies every case isn’t only exhausting—it can be fatal. Told using seven key emotions—fear, grief, joy, distraction, anger, disgust, and hope—Seven Signs of Life opens the door, and heart, of the hectic life inside a hospital to reveal what it means to be alive and how it feels to care for others.
Critical
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Author : Matt Morgan
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019
Critical written by Matt Morgan and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019 with Critical care medicine categories.
'Critical' is an intelligent, compelling and profoundly insightful journey into the world of intensive care medicine and the lives of people who have forever been changed by it. Being critically ill means one or more of your vital organs have failed - this could be your lungs, your heart, your kidneys, gut or even your brain. Starting with the first recognised case in which a little girl was saved by intensive care in 1952 in Copenhagen, Matt writes brilliantly about the fascinating history, practices and technology in this newest of all the major medical specialties. Matt guides us around the ICU by guiding us around the body and the different organs, and in this way, we learn not only the stories of many of the patients he's treated over the years, but also about the various functions different parts of the body.
Intensive Care
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Author : John F. Murray
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2002-07
Intensive Care written by John F. Murray and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-07 with Medical categories.
An experienced doctor offers a behind-the-scenes picture of an Intensive Care Unit in a large city hospital, presenting true accounts of the patients, doctors, nurses, and medical students who cope with life-affecting decisions every minute of every day.
Critical
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Author : Matt Morgan
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2019-05-30
Critical written by Matt Morgan and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-05-30 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Journey into the world of intensive care medicine and the lives of people who have forever been changed by it. ‘A very special book filled with stories of survival, hope and loss.’ Adam Kay '[Morgan's] wit and compassion are everywhere evident in this enlightening book, and he makes a welcome contribution to our understanding of these extraordinary times.' Sunday Times There is no room for error in the ICU. Full focus is required at all times. It can be the difference between life and death. Through the remarkable stories of his patients, Dr. Matt Morgan guides you through the body and its organs. He explains how various critical conditions arise, and all that goes into treating them – from the science, research and technology, to the tireless efforts of the doctors and nurses. This book gives you powerful insights about intensive care, many of which may prevent you, or those close to you, from ending up there. It will even teach you how to save a life. Movingly and compassionately, Matt writes about the cases and the people that have stayed with him, both the recoveries and the losses. This book shows the fragility of life, but also the incredible resilience of the human body and spirit. Sometimes darkness can show you the light.
Intensive Care
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Author : John F. Murray M.D.
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2000-07-17
Intensive Care written by John F. Murray M.D. and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-07-17 with Medical categories.
Intensive Care is an affecting view from the trenches, a seasoned doctor's minute-by-minute and day-by-day account of life in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of a major inner-city hospital, San Francisco General. John F. Murray, for many years Chief of the Pulmonary and Critical Care Division of the hospital and a Professor at the University of California, San Francisco, takes readers on his daily ward rounds, introducing them to the desperately ill patients he treats as well as to the young physicians and medical students who accompany him. Writing with compassion and knowledge accumulated over a long career, Murray presents the true stories of patients who show up with myriad disorders: asthma, cardiac failure, gastrointestinal diseases, complications due to AIDS, the effects of drug and alcohol abuse, emphysema. Readers will come away from this book with a comprehensive understanding of what an ICU is, what it does, who gets admitted, and how doctors and nurses make decisions concerning life-threatening medical problems. Intensive care for critically ill patients is a new but well-established and growing branch of medicine. Estimates suggest that 15 to 20 percent of all hospitalized patients in the United States are treated in an intensive or coronary care unit during each hospital stay, so there is a real possibility that the reader will either be admitted to an ICU himself or herself or knows someone who will be. Murray not only offers a real-time account of the diagnosis, treatment, and progress of his patients over the course of one month but also conveys a wealth of information about various diseases and medical procedures in succinct and easy-to-understand terms. In addition, he elaborates on ethical dilemmas that he confronts on an almost daily basis: the extent of patient autonomy, the denial of ICU care, the withdrawal of life support, and physician-assisted suicide. Murray concludes that ICUs are doing their job, but they could be even better, cheaper, and--most important--more humane. His chronicle brings substance to a world known to most of us only through the fiction of television.
We Can T Kill Your Mother
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Author : Lawrence Martin
language : en
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Release Date : 2011-09-30
We Can T Kill Your Mother written by Lawrence Martin and has been published by AuthorHouse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-09-30 with Health & Fitness categories.
In the early 1980s I wrote a story about an extremely ill patient cared for in our medical intensive care unit (MICU) at Mt. Sinai Hospital, Cleveland. Called A Case For Intensive Care, the story was for a general audience and appeared in a local college literary magazine. Until then all my published writing had been for doctors only, and I wanted to explain a complicated medical case in a way that anyone could understand. In the ensuing years I wrote many other patient-centered stories, each intended for a general audience. They are now collected in We Cant Kill Your Mother! and Other Stories of Intensive Care. This book is for the general reader - In fact the only requirement is an interest in humanity. Illness and medicine are universal and everyone has some familiarity with hospitals, if only from the position of consumer. Most people have, at some point, either been hospitalized or visited a family member in the hospital. These stories take you inside the medical intensive care unit, a major part of every acute care hospital. Thats the setting, but the subject is people and their serious (and sometimes strange) afflictions. The first chapter gives an overview of intensive care rounds and how the MICU operates. Succeeding chapters are devoted to one or two patients and the challenges they present. Like Harold Switek, too ill to leave MICU, too psychotic to stay. And Willie the Yellow Man, whose love affair with alcohol exceeded anything youve ever seen. Youll meet a young socialite hospitalized with rapid onset of total paralysis and wonder as we did will she ever hug her kids again? And another woman about to have her baby during a terrifying asthma attack. I am not the first, and will certainly not be the last, medical professional to write about his or her patients. In a literary sense doctors and nurses are privileged; what we see in our daily jobs is more than enough to fill many interesting books. Lawrence Martin, M.D. Cleveland, Ohio