Life In The Balance: Lessons Learned In The Er

Drawing from a thirty-eight year career in emergency medicine, "Life in the Balance" offers deep insight and understanding of the patients, the nurses, and the emergency physicians who find themselves in life and death crises. Most of the patients arriving at the ER are entering a scary world and are met by strangers. The ER doctor often has to make decisions in minutes to save lives, with scanty or no information for guidance, treating that stranger for the first time. The captivating cases in this book illustrate how the emergency staff struggles to meet the unending demands in our world of breathtaking medical advances and societal demands that are sometimes overwhelming, in caring for everyone coming to the ER. It also reveals some of the profound stresses emergency personnel must endure daily and nighty. This book is a page turner that will stay with you for a long time.

• | Author: Hedley Norman Mendez III
• | Publisher: simply francis publishing company
• | Publication Date: Oct 18, 2018
• | Number of Pages: 213 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1630620211
• | ISBN-13: 9781630620219