Cook County ICU
Subtitle: 30 years of unforgettable patients and odd cases
By: Cory Franklin, MD
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 223
ISBN-13: 9780897339254
Subjects: Intensive care units; John H. Stroger, Jr., Hospital of Cook County (Chicago, Ill.); Hospitals; Cook County Hospital (Chicago, Ill.); Anecdotes
Other titles: Cook County Intensive Care Unit
Description: An inside look at one of the nation's most famous public hospitals, Cook County, as seen through the eyes of its longtime Director of Intensive Care, Dr. Cory Franklin. Readers will be riveted by stories of strange medical cases and unforgettable patients culled from his 30-year career in medicine that spanned the 1970s through the 1990s, including some major moments in medical history like the AIDS epidemic and the deadly Chicago heatwave of 1995. We follow Dr. Franklin as he unravels a host of strange cases including the nurse with rare Munchausen syndrome, the only surviving ricin victim, and the professor with Alzheimer's hiding the effects of the wrong medication. Each chapter features stories centered on a medical topic like body temperature, medications, detecting poisons, and the art of "taking a history" Readers will come away learning how the practice of medicine has changed over the years, which will be insightful for patients, doctors, and medical students alike.
Table of contents: title: Climbing the mountain of medical school (and finding it is just snow and ice); title: Medications can make you (and the fishes) sick; title: The emergency room at night: radioactive patients and chocolate all over the place; title: Dead men don't tell tales, but sometimes they get x-rays and ECGs; title: The toughest man in the hospital becomes the most pitiable; title: A black man in Dallas on the day JFK was assassinated; title: Rib tips and homegoings; title: Of little green men and imaginary highways; title: Poisons: KGB umbrellas, the first Ricin survivor, and a suicidal biochemist; title: The woman with the sore thumb: why listening is an art; title: Don't believe everything you read in the medical record; title: Sources of embarrassment: vibrators, rashes, and medical students; title: The mystery of the seductive nurse; title: The princess and the king; title: The Duke of Spain and the professor from Penn; title: West side drama in three parts; title: Mr. Rodriguez's secret, and the assassin's victim; title: Of presidents, Negro Leaguers, serial killers, and Linda Darnell; title: Tales from the movies; title: Stay away from the hospital on holidays if at all possible; title: Yes, physicians can be arrogant and heartless; title: The disease that turned out to be AIDS; title: Chicago has two seasons; title: Working in a free clinic: health without wealth; title: You can't stop progress.