Tornado of Life
A Doctor's Journey through Constraints and Creativity in the ER
$51.02
- Paperback
320 pages
- Release Date
16 July 2024
Summary
To be an emergency room doctor is to be a professional listener to stories. Each patient presents a story; finding the heart of that story is the doctor’s most critical task. More technology, more tests, and more data won’t work if doctors get the story wrong. When caring for others can feel like venturing into uncharted territory without a map, empathy, creativity, imagination, and thinking like a writer become the cornerstones of clinical care.
In Tornado of Life, ER physic…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262548427 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0262548429 |
| Author: | Jay Baruch |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 16 July 2024 |
| Weight: | 369g |
| Dimensions: | 203mm x 133mm |
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About The Author
Jay Baruch
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.
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