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| Acknowledgments | ix | |
| Staff of Bellevue Hospital and Associated Institutions in Order of Appearance | xi | |
| 1. | An Overturned Crane | 1 |
| 2. | "First, Do No Harm" | 8 |
| 3. | Learning to Juggle | 16 |
| 4. | A Morning's Rounds | 28 |
| 5. | Doing a Decent Thing | 38 |
| 6. | A Shock and a Dive | 48 |
| 7. | A Question of Poison | 59 |
| 8. | The Making of a Medical Student | 71 |
| 9. | Becoming an Emergency Doctor | 80 |
| 10. | The Carriage Trade | 97 |
| 11. | A Midday Arrival | 108 |
| 12. | An Alkaloid Plague | 121 |
| 13. | The Case of the Crazed Executives | 131 |
| 14. | Creepie Crawlies | 142 |
| 15. | A Blonde and a Severed Leg | 153 |
| 16. | A Lesson and a Crash | 164 |
| 17. | Human Warmth and a Drink of Gasoline | 176 |
| 18. | A Leap and an Inspection | 187 |
| 19. | A Doctor on Call | 197 |
| 20. | Notes on a Juggernaut | 208 |
| 21. | About Children | 220 |
| 22. | An Aneurysm and a Dangerous Diet | 228 |
| 23. | About AIDS | 239 |
| 24. | A Peanut and a Mercury Injection | 255 |
| 25. | Moulage Day | 265 |
| 26. | Knocking Back a Few | 279 |
| 27. | Pokeweed, Headaches and Tribal Medicine | 293 |
| 28. | No Place to Go | 308 |
| 29. | A Day and a Night to Remember | 322 |
| 30. | Toward Medical Victory | 341 |
| Afterword | 353 |
| Price | Condition | Delivery | Seller | Action |
| $99.99 | Digital |
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Michael Tejada
reviewed Emergency Doctor on February 21, 2013
Emergency Doctor
It took me a very long time to read this book (about two months or so). Not for lack of interest, but for some reason I couldn't just lose myself in it the way I like to.
I found it quite good, and very interesting. Since it was published 25 years ago I found the perspective on emergency medicine and treating the poor to be interesting, and a lot of it is likely the same. I also thought the passages on HIV/AIDS were fascinating, especially when there was hopeful optimism that AZT drug trials would work and the drug would be put on the market for AIDS patients. It is sometimes strange to remember that true therapy for AIDS isn't very old.
So, I liked this book, and definitely learned a lot from it, but I didn't like it as much as I wanted to. Though, I am more motivated to read the other books I have on my to-read lists that are about, or take place in, Bellevue. I also enjoyed the perspective shared on drug abuse, alcoholism, and the poor (which were overwhelmingly the issues treated in the Bellevue emergency room in the book).
I do recommend it as a primer and interesting look into the early days of a separate field of emergency medicine. Sort of a precursor to the show ER.
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