𝔖 Scriptorium
✦   LIBER   ✦
📁

Code Gray : Death, Life, and Uncertainty in the ER

✍ Scribed by Farzon A Nahvi

Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Year
2023
Tongue
English
Category
Library
⬇  Acquire This Volume

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

Code Gray is a narrative-driven medical memoir that places you directly in the crucible of urgent life-or-death decision-making, offering insights that can help us cope at a time when the world around us appears to be falling apart.
In the tradition of books by such bestselling physician-authors as Atul Gawande, Siddhartha Mukherjee, and Danielle Ofri, this beautifully written memoir by an emergency room doctor takes place during one of his routine shifts at an urban ER. Intimately narrated as it follows the experiences of real patients, it is filled with fascinating, adrenaline-pumping scenes of rescues and deaths, and the critical, often excruciating follow-through in caring for the patients' families.

Centered on the riveting story of a seemingly healthy forty-three-year-old woman who arrives in the ER in sudden cardiac arrest, Code Gray weaves in stories that explore everything from the early days of the Covid outbreak to the perennial glaring...

📜 SIMILAR VOLUMES

Code Gray: Death, Life, and Uncertainty
📁 Code Gray: Death, Life, and Uncertainty in the ER
✍ Farzon A. Nahvi 📂 Library 🌐 English

<b>A powerful, compelling firsthand account of the moral and ethical questions ER doctors face even as they scramble to diagnose patients on the brink of death.</b> <i>Code Gray </i>is the riveting story of a seemingly healthy forty-three-year-old woman who arrives in the ER in sudden cardiac arres

Certainty-uncertainty – and the Attitudi
📁 Certainty-uncertainty – and the Attitudinal Space in Between
✍ Sibilla Cantarini, Werner Abraham, Elisabeth Leiss 📂 Library 📅 2014 🏛 John Benjamins Publishing Company 🌐 English

The selected papers of this volume cover five main topics, namely ‘Certainty: The conceptual differential’; ‘(Un)Certainty as attitudinality’; ‘Dialogical exchange and speech acts’; ‘Onomasiology’; and ‘Applications in exegesis and religious discourse’. By examining the general theme of the communic

Something for the pain: one doctor's acc
📁 Something for the pain: one doctor's account of life and death in the ER
✍ Austin, Paul 📂 Library 📅 2008 🏛 W. W. Norton & Company 🌐 English

In this riveting memoir, an ER doctor reveals how his high-stress career of helping others led to a struggle to save himself.;Introduction: Tool bag -- Night shift -- Still hurting -- The caring curve -- Something so personal -- Declaring a patient -- Ventilator -- Among savages -- Face-to-face -- M