Intensive Care: A Doctor's Journal ebook

Intensive Care: A Doctor's Journal

Intensive Care is an affecting view from the trenches, a seasoned doctor's minute-by-minute and day-by-day account of life in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of a major inner-city hospital, San Francisco General. John F. Murray, for many years Chief of the Pulmonary and Critical Care Division of the hospital and a Professor at the University of California, San Francisco, takes readers on his daily ward rounds, introducing them to the desperately ill patients he treats as well as to the young physicians and medical students who accompany him. Writing with compassion and knowledge accumulated over a long career, Murray presents the true stories of patients who show up with myriad disorders: asthma, cardiac failure, gastrointestinal diseases, complications due to AIDS, the effects of drug and alcohol abuse, emphysema. Readers will come away from this book with a comprehensive understanding of what an ICU is, what it does, who gets admitted, and how doctors and nurses make decisions concerning life-threatening medical problems. Murray concludes that ICUs are doing their job, but they could be even better, cheaper, and--most important--more humane. His chronicle brings substance to a world known to most of us only through the fiction of television.

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Title of ebook: Intensive Care: A Doctor's Journal
ISBN: 9780520900127
parent-ISBN: 9780520220898
Publisher: University of California Press
Pages: 311
Published: 07-2000
Released online for download: 07-01-2000
Author of eBook: Murray, M. D. John F.

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Prologue.................................................................ix Day 1 Thursday..........................................................1 Day 2 Friday...........................................................18 Day 3 Saturday.........................................................28 Day 4 Sunday...........................................................36 Day 5 Monday...........................................................48 Day 6 Tuesday..........................................................59 Day 7 Wednesday........................................................68 Day 8 Thursday.........................................................79 Day 9 Friday...........................................................92 Day 10 Saturday........................................................101 Day 11 Sunday..........................................................115 Day 12 Monday..........................................................125 Day 13 Tuesday.........................................................132 Day 14 Wednesday.......................................................141 Day 15 Thursday................... ... read full excerpt from: Intensive Care: A Doctor's Journal ebook

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