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    The Most Unfeeling Doctor in the World and Other True Tales From the Emergency Room
    The Most Unfeeling Doctor in the World and Other True Tales From the Emergency Room
    The Most Unfeeling Doctor in the World and Other True Tales From the Emergency Room
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    The Most Unfeeling Doctor in the World and Other True Tales From the Emergency Room

    By Melissa Yuan-Innes

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    When I mention that I work in an emergency room, people usually say,
    1. Are you a nurse? (No.)
    2. Wow. That must be really hard. (Sometimes.)
    3. What's it like?

    This is what it's like to run the ER.

    That teenager puking up two liters of vodka and his stomach lining at triage? Yup. Blood pouring out of a terrified pregnant woman? Call me. And, of course, the patient who no longer has a nosebleed screaming at me across the department, "You. Are. The Most. Unfeeling doctor. I have ever met!"

    Let me peel back the curtain for you. It's not an iron curtain. In the emerg, it's most likely a crummy fabric curtain that too many other people have sneezed on.

    Come on in.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOlo Books
    Release dateJun 29, 2011
    ISBN9780987686510
    The Most Unfeeling Doctor in the World and Other True Tales From the Emergency Room
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    Melissa Yuan-Innes

    Melissa Yuan-Innes is an emergency room doctor and writer who lives with her husband, one son, one daughter, two cows, and too many mosquitoes outside of Montreal, Canada. She writes thrillers and science fiction/fantasy under Melissa Yuan-Innes, mysteries under the name Melissa Yi, romance under Melissa Yin, and children's/YA under Melissa Yuan. "Mixing mystery in with sheer humanity and splendid characterization, Yuan-Innes's story is a delight." --Alicia Curtis, A&E Editor, The Stormy Petrel "Melissa Yuan-Innes delivers a Bradburyian shocker" --Paul Di Filippo, Asimov's "Yuan-Innes employs a fresh use of language to spin a storyline that is at once universally familiar and intriguingly original." --Brian Agincourt Massey, judge of the 2008 Innermoonlit Award for Best First Chapter of a Novel, in awarding first prize to _The Popcorn Girl Meets Darwin Jones_

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    • 4/5
      Quick, fun, and easy read. Can easily relate if you are in the healthcare field.

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    • 1/5
      It started off really promising then it got too personal. I want to read stories about the emergency room not her quirks. Just not what I was expecting from the description.

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    • 5/5
      medical-doctor, medical-perspective, humor, essays ***** This is not an unbiased review. As a retired RN who has spent years translating Medicalese into patient/family speak I love the humanity revealed with good humor. Most of the incidents related are from before the author went into independent practice but are representative of every Western medical practitioner I have ever worked with. Patients can learn a lot from this short book. I loved it. Louise Sproul gave an excellent audio performance.

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