On the Edge of Life: Diary of a Medical Intensive Care Unit
- List Price: $19.95
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
- Publish date: 06/01/2001
Description:
When he was a resident in the Massachusetts General Hospital's Medical Intensive Care Unit twenty years ago, Dr. Ted Stern decided to start a diary for all the residents in the unit, a journal where they could record their most honest thoughts about their experiences, with or without attribution.
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Dr. Stern and a current MICU resident, Dr. Mikkael Sekeres, have culled the most evocative, colorful and moving entries and have supplemented them with explanatory text to present a graphic portrait of a real world ICU.
Dramatic, touching, thoughtful, and at times hilarious, the MICU diary evokes a world reminiscent of M*A*S*H*, where the conditions are hellish, the patients are desperately sick, and the staff is very, very human.
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