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Dr. Pamela Grim has been an emergency medical physician for almost 10 years.

Now, she shares her experiences, taking the reader into the emergency room to witness first hand the dramatic circumstances of one of the world's most demanding jobs. While she ventures into the heart of the emergency room, she also delves into her own heart and mind, providing a clear picture of a caring physician whose doubts, questions, and insecurities have to be pushed aside to make split-second life and death decisions every minute of the day-all in the course of trying to save a few lives.

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In this outstanding collection of stories and "lessons," Pamela Grim, an emergency medicine physician, reveals the painful truths learned from the daily witnessing of the underside of life, where most who enter are addicts, idiots, drunks, and psychotics whose poor choices have led them to the end of the line. The ER is a more tragic, chaotic, and weird place than any TV show has ever portrayed. A man walks in with a butcher knife imbedded in his skull, a teenage girl asks incredulously, "I'm pregnant?" after delivery, and the best kind of cop dies on the table while his killer is saved in the next room. Grim brilliantly captures the adrenaline-fueled chaos of code calls in inner-city ERs, where the unrelenting pressure puts doctors and nurses alike in a perpetual state of shell shock. In this environment, doctors must make split-second decisions under the specter of malpractice suits and the knowledge that every moment weighs in on whether the patient will live or die. Fortunately, Grim is the sort of storyteller who can make a reader cry then laugh out loud in a matter of pages. She is a no-nonsense doctor--and author--whose compassion and wisdom are as unexpected and brightly illuminated as the resurrection of the 4-year-old with no pulse who was crushed by the family car.

Between the pressure and the bruises left by each death, burnout is inevitable. Grim's response is to head for Nigeria with Doctors Without Borders, and later to Bosnia and a Kosovar refugee camp, where once again she is "awestruck by the suffering God can inflict." The dearth of technology and supplies and the low survival rates make a shocking contrast to the miracles achieved in American hospitals. Grim considers some profound issues--the nature of grief, the humanitarian aid paradox in which helping out can indirectly enable corrupt governments, and the despair of trying to save lives when so many are dying. Ultimately, she realizes that the answer is in the particular; it is saving individual lives that makes her work--and life itself--meaningful. This is one powerful page-turner with the potential to change minds as well as lives. --Lesley Reed

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I thought this doctor was a solid writer and the stories she relates I found very interesting. Her selection of episodes from her experience and her treatment of them by going deeper into the subjects and not just relating an interesting series of tales from emergency medicine are some of the true positives that set this book apart and above most others of the same subject. She has that knack for style and story telling that would allow her to make almost any subject interesting to the readers.
She makes the procedures she or others are doing very understandable, but does not lose the drama, keeping the pressure and intensity on and always keeps a theme of something greater going as well.
If you get this book do not let the beginning and the first chapter make you think you made a mistake. This is another unique and positive approach she has to her book; she starts with first chapter at a later point in time of her life in another place, but this sets up the rest of the book very well. I think also that by the time you get through the third page you will be so moved by what is going on that you will want to continue even if she did not go from there into the real topic of book- her career in emergency medicine.
I think she is very unique in how she handles things, makes a sometimes trite subject even to those who really enjoy this subject like myself completely exciting and interesting again and I wholeheartedly recommend this book.
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