First, Do No Harm
First, Do No Harm Books
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“A powerful, right tale of life and death in a major metropolitan sickbay…Harrowing… An vital book.”
THE NEW YORK TIMES
What is life worth? And what is a life worth living? At a time when America faces vital choices about the future of its health care, former NEW YORK TIMES correspondent Lisa Belkin takes a powerful and poignant look at the inner workings of Hermann Sickbay in Houston, Texas, telling the remarkable, real-life tales of the doctors, patients, families, and sickbay administrators who must question–and ultimately resolution–the most profound and heart-rendng questions about life and death.
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I like books about the problems of the Medical community. This one was very excellent. The author included factual in rank by the side of with right like human interest tales of real people in Houston, Texas in the 80’s. I left this book at a book exchange at The Plaza Las Glorias in Cozumel, Mexico on 10-28-00 nearly 9:00am and it was gone by 11:00am. I want to know where it went. I hope Amazon prints this.
Rating: 5 / 5
Want to know what it is like to have the power to say if someone lives or dies? How would you feel if it was your job to say “pull the plug”on a babies life? Fantastic book! Makes you reckon.All hospitals should have a Ethics Group.
Rating: 4 / 5
This book shed light on some ethical concerns that really got me thought. Not every tale was a pleased ending but thats the definition of life. As a medical professional, I did delight in it.
Rating: 5 / 5
I am a huge fan of medical books, with all their tales about doctors and patients. My shelves are stuffed with them, including books by Frank Huyler and Jerome Groopman, Jerald Winakur and Atul Gawande, just to name a few. I like tales that humanize hospitals and their staff, and make us empathize and educate us on what goes on surrounded by those walls.
This book gets an A+ in that regard. Lisa Belkin divides her book up by months, and within those months we revisit certain patients to see their progress. We come to know and care about all of them – from the least possible of premature babies, to those with devastating injuries and illnesses that foretell the bleakest of futures.
But this book is more than just our empathizing with these patients and learning about their treatments, it’s also about finding out how the medical staff deals with all this on a fixed basis. It’s not only the patients we come to know and care about in this book.
In addition, there are fascinating chapters that take us surrounded by the ethics committees that determine the future course of action for these patients, and let us know how the doctors determine when to proceed with procedures that may or may not help, and when the very real problems of sickbay finances becomes intertwined with these complicated decisions.
I read this book in one sitting and it both went me and educated me. Highly not compulsory.
Rating: 5 / 5
This is not the sort of book I ordinarily read. But from page one I was captivated loved every page. The fact that all the patients were real people made it even more fascinating. The behind the scenes accounts of ethics committees etc opens your eyes to what really goes on in hospitals, with life and death decisions. I really loved this book and would urge it to anyone.
Rating: 5 / 5