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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. Empathy, creativity, and imagination are the cornerstones of clinical care. In Tornado of Life, ER physician Jay Baruch offers a series of short, powerful, and affecting essays that capture the stories of ER patients in all their complexity and messiness.
Patients come to the ER with lives troubled by scales of misfortune that have little to do with disease or injury. ER doctors must be problem-finders before they are problem-solvers. Cheryl, for example, whose story is a chaos narrative of “and this happened, and then that happened, and then, and then and then and then,” tells Baruch she is "stuck in a tornado of life.” What will help her, and what will help Mr. K., who seems like a textbook case of post-combat PTSD but turns out not to be? Baruch describes, among other things, the emergency of loneliness (invoking Chekhov, another doctor-writer); his own (frightening) experience as a patient; the patient who demanded a hug; and emergency medicine during COVID-19. These stories often end without closure or solutions. The patients are discharged into the world. But if they’re lucky, the doctor has listened to their stories as well as treated them.
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. Empathy, creativity, and imagination are the cornerstones of clinical care. In Tornado of Life, ER physician Jay Baruch offers a series of short, powerful, and affecting essays that capture the stories of ER patients in all their complexity and messiness.
Patients come to the ER with lives troubled by scales of misfortune that have little to do with disease or injury. ER doctors must be problem-finders before they are problem-solvers. Cheryl, for example, whose story is a chaos narrative of “and this happened, and then that happened, and then, and then and then and then,” tells Baruch she is "stuck in a tornado of life.” What will help her, and what will help Mr. K., who seems like a textbook case of post-combat PTSD but turns out not to be? Baruch describes, among other things, the emergency of loneliness (invoking Chekhov, another doctor-writer); his own (frightening) experience as a patient; the patient who demanded a hug; and emergency medicine during COVID-19. These stories often end without closure or solutions. The patients are discharged into the world. But if they’re lucky, the doctor has listened to their stories as well as treated them.
• Chief Complaint
• Not the Beginning
• Vulnerability
• Tornado of Life
• Backstory
• Why Medicine Needs More Not-Knowing
• Ambassador to Nightmares
• Catheters
• When Loneliness is an Emergency
• Trust as Protection
• Upside Down
• Waiting for the Surge
• Narrative Risks: Shape, Place, and Gutter
• Zebras
• Hug, or Ugh
• Constraints
• Moving on
• Compassion at the Crossroads
• Pain: A Story That’s Hard to Treat
• There’s Dying, and Dying Now
• Holding On, Letting Go
• When Waiting Feels Immoral
• Benefit Paradox
• Unsafe Discharge
• Big Incision
• To Err is To Be a Physician
• When Sensitivity is a Liability
• Why Won’t My Patient Act Like a Jerk?
• Wheelchair
• Possibility
• Caring for the caregiver
• Oktoberfest
• Dr Douchebag RW
• In defense of cheaper stethoscopes
• The appendix: ancient organ for the modern age
• Judging patients
• A knock on the door
• Paper scrubs
• The Ashtray
• The patient who wanted nothing
• Can we write a better story for ourselves?
• Not an ending
• One more thing, writing stories of medicine
• Acknowledgements
• Notes
• Index
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 2024 |
|---|---|
| Fachbereich: | Allgemeine Lexika |
| Genre: | Medizin |
| Rubrik: | Wissenschaften |
| Medium: | Taschenbuch |
| Inhalt: | Einband - flex.(Paperback) |
| ISBN-13: | 9780262548427 |
| ISBN-10: | 0262548429 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| Autor: | Baruch, Jay |
| Hersteller: | Penguin Random House LLC |
| Maße: | 196 x 122 x 15 mm |
| Von/Mit: | Jay Baruch |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 30.07.2024 |
| Gewicht: | 0,299 kg |
• Chief Complaint
• Not the Beginning
• Vulnerability
• Tornado of Life
• Backstory
• Why Medicine Needs More Not-Knowing
• Ambassador to Nightmares
• Catheters
• When Loneliness is an Emergency
• Trust as Protection
• Upside Down
• Waiting for the Surge
• Narrative Risks: Shape, Place, and Gutter
• Zebras
• Hug, or Ugh
• Constraints
• Moving on
• Compassion at the Crossroads
• Pain: A Story That’s Hard to Treat
• There’s Dying, and Dying Now
• Holding On, Letting Go
• When Waiting Feels Immoral
• Benefit Paradox
• Unsafe Discharge
• Big Incision
• To Err is To Be a Physician
• When Sensitivity is a Liability
• Why Won’t My Patient Act Like a Jerk?
• Wheelchair
• Possibility
• Caring for the caregiver
• Oktoberfest
• Dr Douchebag RW
• In defense of cheaper stethoscopes
• The appendix: ancient organ for the modern age
• Judging patients
• A knock on the door
• Paper scrubs
• The Ashtray
• The patient who wanted nothing
• Can we write a better story for ourselves?
• Not an ending
• One more thing, writing stories of medicine
• Acknowledgements
• Notes
• Index
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 2024 |
|---|---|
| Fachbereich: | Allgemeine Lexika |
| Genre: | Medizin |
| Rubrik: | Wissenschaften |
| Medium: | Taschenbuch |
| Inhalt: | Einband - flex.(Paperback) |
| ISBN-13: | 9780262548427 |
| ISBN-10: | 0262548429 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| Autor: | Baruch, Jay |
| Hersteller: | Penguin Random House LLC |
| Maße: | 196 x 122 x 15 mm |
| Von/Mit: | Jay Baruch |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 30.07.2024 |
| Gewicht: | 0,299 kg |
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