EM Physician books?

[DeadCactus]

Not like a textbook but a biography or such. Anyone have a favorite non-fiction EM book?

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[The White Coat Investor]

The Rape of Emergency Medicine?

 

[EctopicFetus]

Also the house of god.

 

[DeadCactus]

Read both. Looking for something... more positive...

In a residency slump, looking for a reminder that there's more to EM than moving widgets...

 

[linuxizer]

Knife and Gun Club?

 

[coachB]

Not like a textbook but a biography or such. Anyone have a favorite non-fiction EM book?

Anyone, Anything, Anytime by Brian Zink

Good history of the specialty

 

[Fox800]

Baghdad ER is pretty good so far. Definitely not a typical practice environment, but an entertaining read nonetheless.

 

[DrDrummer]

I really liked David Newman's book, Hippocrates' Shadow. Not EM specific in its entirety but a lot of it. Also, the recent book Shocked: Adventures in Bringing Back the Recently Dead by David Cassarett, which is a really cool history of resuscitation.

 

[WilcoWorld]

Frank Huyler (faculty at UNM) wrote the excellent collection of vignettes, The Blood of Strangers. He really captures the joy and (more often) the pain of practicing EM.

I highly recommend it to anyone who works in an ED.

 

[docdragon]

Paul Austin's Something for the Pain

That would be the first I'd go to for a residency slump. Don't forget the broader world, though! Cutting for Stone is a good read. And sometimes ya just need to give up and read a highly victorious children's book full of warriors and winning and yelling. Like Redwall.

...off to add The Blood of Strangers to my Amazon list. Thanks!

 

[Apollyon]

Paul Austin's Something for the Pain

My wife is reading that right now. I worked with Paul when I was a resident. Good guy!