Something for the pain
Subtitle: one doctor's account of life and death in the ER
By: Paul Austin.
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Co.
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 297
ISBN-13: 9780393065602
Subjects: Austin, Paul, -- 1955-; Austin, Paul, -- 1955-; Emergency physicians -- United States -- Biography; Emergency Medicine -- Personal Narratives; Emergency Treatment -- psychology -- Personal Narratives; Physician-Patient Relations -- Personal Narratives; Physicians -- Personal Narratives
Genres: Biography.; Personal Narratives.
Description: In this riveting memoir, an ER doctor reveals how his high-stress career of helping others led to a struggle to save himself.
Table of contents: title: Tool bag; title: Night shift; title: Still hurting; title: The caring curve; title: Something so personal; title: Declaring a patient; title: Ventilator; title: Among savages; title: Face-to-face; title: Mrs. Kelly; title: Splinters; title: Tucker put his gun to his head; title: Longing for sleep; title: Seeking rehab; title: Somebody's baby; title: Sleeping at my mother-in-law's; title: Sleeping quarters; title: Gunshot wound to the chest; title: Why don't you do something?; title: Something for the pain; title: The devil is a beautiful man; title: Rotating shifts.