It's a place of intense human drama, life's highest hopes and deepest despairs. A place we rarely get to see through a doctor's eyes. But now the emergency room at a children's hospital is revealed in a moving and personal notebook by William Bonadio, M.D. It recounts the lessons a doctor learns beyond medicine, beyond the textbooks, revealing insights into the human condition at both its most vulnerable and courageous moments -- from the patient who, after intense medical therapy, gives up the will to live, to the sick newborn baby who never would. We feel the supreme power of a mother's instinct to advocate for her handicapped child, and observe the supreme wisdom of an immigrant father who intuitively senses things the doctors cannot. Finally, with Julia's mother, we share in the nobility of a parent's unending search to find meaning in tragedy.
Chapter One
Julia
OCTOBER 15, 1998 THE EMERGENCY ROOM CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL
3:00 A.M.
The ER winds down, like a wobbling top. The last patient is discharged home—at least for now. Still six more hours to go on this overnight shift. But for now the lights are dimmed low, as nurses brew more coffee and riffle through magazines to pass the time.
Will I get to rest a bit?
A cold chill always runs through me at about 3 A.M. It's the "night-watch" chill. We all get it. Drags on you, makes it difficult to finish an overnight shift. I can abort it—artificially—by taking coffee. A "caffeine push" is necessary at 3 A.M. when the ER stays busy, to trick the gears of your body through it; but you pay a price later on, because then you are nauseated for the next twenty-four hours. Or, the chill will resolve itself—naturally—if I can get some sleep during a lull like this, to let my internal clock ... read full excerpt from Julia's Mother ebook
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