The Shift by Theresa Brown

The Shift by Theresa Brown

A wonderfully told story of the life-and-death reality of a hospital . . .

. . . Theresa Brown helps us understand the dramas and the dangers as the beautifully evocative stories of nurses and doctors, patients and family members, overlap and entwine during a twelve-hour shift.
--Perri Klass, MD, author of Treatment Kind and Fair: Letters to a Young Doctor

Practicing nurse and New York Times columnist Theresa Brown invites us to experience not just a day in the life of a nurse but all the life that happens in just one day on a busy teaching hospital's cancer ward. In the span of twelve hours, lives can be lost, life-altering treatment decisions made, and dreams fulfilled or irrevocably stolen. Unfolding in real time--under the watchful eyes of this dedicated professional and insightful chronicler of events--The Shift gives an unprecedented view into the individual struggles as well as the larger truths about medicine in this country. By shift's end, we have witnessed something profound about hope and humanity.

Meticulous, absorbing . . . Stands out for its honesty, clarity, and heart. [Brown] juggles the fears, hopes, and realities of a twelve-hour shift in a typical urban hospital with remarkable insight and unflagging care.
Her memoir is a must-read. --Publishers Weekly (starred review)

Riveting . . . Should be required reading for all incoming medical and nursing students--or anyone who is a patient or visitor in a hospital. --Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

What makes Brown's story shine are the touching and sometimes bizarre moments that make real life in a hospital stranger than fiction. --The Boston Globe

An empathetic and absorbing narrative as riveting as a TV drama. --Kirkus Reviews

Captures perfectly [a nurse's] central role in any patient's life. --Susan Love, MD, author of Dr. Susan Love's Breast Book

Brown, Theresa: - Theresa Brown, RN, works as a clinical nurse. Her regular column appears on the New York Times opinion pages as well as on the Times Opinionator blog. She has also been a contributor to the popular Well section of that paper and writes for CNN.com and other national media. Brown received her BSN from the University of Pittsburgh and, during what she calls her past life, a PhD in English from the University of Chicago. Before becoming a nurse she taught English at Tufts University. Today, her focus is medical oncology and end-of-life issues. She lectures nationally, is a board member of the Center for Health Media and Policy at the Bellevue School of Nursing at Hunter College. Brown was a panelist for the TEDMED's Great Challenges of Health and Medicine initiative and is also involved in the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Flip the Clinic initiative and an advisory board member for Scrubs Magazine. She lives with her husband and three children in Pennsylvania.

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ISBN 13	9781616203207
ISBN 10	161620320X
Titel	The Shift
Autor	Theresa Brown
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Bindungsart	Hardback
Verlag	Algonquin Books
Erscheinungsjahr	2015-09-22
Seitenanzahl	272
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