Theresa Brown
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Practicing nurse and New York Times columnist Theresa Brown invites readers to experience not just a day in the life of a nurse but all the life that happens in just one day on a hospital cancer ward. In her skilled hands, as both a dedicated nurse and an insightful chronicler of events, we are given an unprecedented view into the individual struggles as well as the larger truths about medicine in this country, and by the end of the shift, we have...
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"Among all the recent books on medicine, Critical Care stands alone." - Pauline Chen, author of Final Exam
"A must read for anyone who wants to understand healthcare. Extraordinary." - Elizabeth Cohen, MPH, CNN Senior Medical Correspondent
Critical Care is the powerful and absorbing memoir of Theresa Brown-a regular contributor to the New York Times blog "Well"-about her experiences during the first year on the job as an oncology nurse; in the...