Emergency Doctor

by Ziegler, Edward; Goldfrank, Lewis

• ISBN13: 9780345471635
• ISBN10: 0345471636
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1995-03-01
• Publisher: Ivy Books

Summary

Hundreds of people slam through its doors every day: gun-shot cops, battered kids, drug addicts, and suicides, destitute drunks, homeless people, AIDS sufferers, and accident victims. It's a bizarre parade of humanity looking for help -- in the one place they know they can find it. Welcome to the frontline trenches of medicine: the emergency room of the legendary Bellevue Hospital. Here, an army of doctors and nurses faces the onslaught of young and old, rich and ragged, sick and dying. All day, all night. All year. This is their story -- an around-the-clock drama of the unexpected: a crane falling on a hapless pedestrian; a crazed executive wearing two-thirds of a three-piece suit; a pretty paralegal aide struggling with an on-the-job cocaine overdose; a trauma victim of an East River helicopter crash clinging to life. It's terrifying, tragic, triumphant ... and true. Book jacket.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Staff of Bellevue Hospital and Associated Institutions in Order of Appearance	p. xi
An Overturned Crane	p. 1
"First, Do No Harm"	p. 8
Learning to Juggle	p. 16
A Morning's Rounds	p. 28
Doing a Decent Thing	p. 38
A Shock and a Dive	p. 48
A Question of Poison	p. 59
The Making of a Medical Student	p. 71
Becoming an Emergency Doctor	p. 80
The Carriage Trade	p. 97
A Midday Arrival	p. 108
An Alkaloid Plague	p. 121
The Case of the Crazed Executives	p. 131
Creepie Crawlies	p. 142
A Blonde and a Severed Leg	p. 153
A Lesson and a Crash	p. 164
Human Warmth and a Drink of Gasoline	p. 176
A Leap and an Inspection	p. 187
A Doctor on Call	p. 197
Notes on a Juggernaut	p. 208
About Children	p. 220
An Aneurysm and a Dangerous Diet	p. 228
About AIDS	p. 239
A Peanut and a Mercury Injection	p. 255
Moulage Day	p. 265
Knocking Back a Few	p. 279
Pokeweed, Headaches and Tribal Medicine	p. 293
No Place to Go	p. 308
A Day and a Night to Remember	p. 322
Toward Medical Victory	p. 341
Afterword	p. 353
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