Burn Unit: Saving Lives After the Flames
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“A compelling blend of science, history and storytelling. Barbara Ravage has fashioned an enlightening, invaluable book.” -Stewart O’Nan, author of The Circus Fire: A Right Tale of an American Tragedy Though each of us is just a spark away from being a burn victim, the broadcast knows small and understands less about the world that patients inhabit. Pulling the curtains back on this private and sterile environment, Burn Unit is a riveting account of the frontline efforts-both modern-day and historical-to save lives devastated by fire. With unflinching urgency, Barbara Ravage follows an extraordinary team of healers at Massachusetts General Sickbay, the cradle of modern burn treatment and the site of one of the best burn units in the world. From Boston’s Cocoanut Grove fire of 1942 to the treatment of the victims of the Rhode Island nightclub fire in early 2003, we watch everyday heroes do their incredible but punishing work hostile to the backdrop of history. Both a tender human drama and an engrossing scientific exploration of this small-known field of medicine, Burn Unit is an unforgettably powerful read.
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It’s grueling work caring for victims who wind up in a burn unit: work author Barbara Ravage examines as she follows the Mass General health team working in the sickbay’s burn unit. Here are touching tales of victims severely burned, medical teams which care for them through a trying recovery administer, and insights into the latest advances in remedy and treatment. The many case histories personalize the entire experience.
Rating: 5 / 5
In BURN UNIT, Barbara Ravage satisfies every one of my requirements for favored nonfiction: previously unknown theme matter, meticulous research, superb selection of detail, a focus on the people caught up, and a tale well told. Thank you, Barbara. You allow me to recover as patient and grieve as family. You amaze and humble me with your depiction of the incredible people in the profession. You surprise me with your section on who gets burned. You skillfully intercut between the lives you follow and the description and history of the field. Once wasn’t enough. I had to read BURN UNIT twice!
Rating: 5 / 5
Burn Unit is a marvelous book. The writing sparkles — Ravage involves the reader in the progress of the patients she tracks, the history of burn care and medical understanding of burns, and the unique world of care givers in the field of burn treatment. Burns are not like other illnesses/injuries. This book brings the reader into unfamiliar territory (some of it trying)– but you can’t place it down. Anyone with an interest in reading about medicine — or about survival — or about caring, will like this book.
Rating: 5 / 5
In her riveting, intensely researched book, Burn Unit, Barbara Ravage draws the reader into the awkward and perilous world in which the sincerely burned exist. One qualifies for this world in a flash and once there, life can never be as it was. We follow two families to Mass General’s superior Burn Unit, learning in fascinating detail what a separate world it is. Everything in this book is so finely drawn, from the family members suddenly faced with their own conflicting emotions, to the exquisitely-trained sickbay personnel, to the description of the burns themselves. Ravage has written a compelling book about a small-understood theme. It’s a book one cannot easily turn away from.
Rating: 4 / 5
I’ll start out here by saying that I am a medical non-fic junkie. I have read just about every medical narrative non-fiction book to come out in the last five years, and I am simply intrigued with the behind the scenes look at what goes on in hospitals and in the minds of doctors and nurses. I was in the sickbay a lot as a teen and I reckon that is where my interest ongoing.
So I am not appearance from a place of particular interest in burns, more from a general medical interest standpoint. If you are specifically interested in learning about what goes on in a burn unit or what goes on in a patient’s body after they are burned, then this is an incredible book. It is very informative. The author discussion about historical fires and how they contributed to medical knowledge about burns, the physiological changes that occur in a human’s body after apt burned, and the medical treatment. She also personalizes the burn unit by showing actual people who suffered a burn and showing their progress.
But for me, appearance from the perspective of wanting a thrilling and informative non-fiction read about the medical field (like Hot Lights, Cold Steel by Collins), this didn’t fit the bill. The historical and informative parts that told us about advances in the burn field and what happens physiologically were too dry to hold my attention without having any specific reason to learn about them, and the people she profiled didn’t capture my heart and interest.
So, if you are looking for a general interest read that will capture your attention even with no particular interest in the field, look elsewhere, but if you have experiences with burns or are a doctor, then this is a really fascinating and informative read. It is gory in parts, so be warned.
Rating: 4 / 5