emergency medicine

Atul Gawande discusses the complexity of daily living in the early twenty-first century, and advocates the benefits of using checklists to prevent avoidable failures.

Contains over twenty true stories based on the author's experiences as an emergency room physician.

Looks at the work done by emergency medical technicians and the tools they use to do their jobs.

In this riveting memoir, an ER doctor reveals how his high-stress career of helping others led to a struggle to save himself.

Text and photographs describe activities occurring in a hospital emergency room as they follow a number of both seriously ill patients and patients with minor complaints through their treatment.

Simple text and photographs introduce the important jobs and the parts of an ambulance.

Eleven-year-old Megan spends an exciting summer as an intern at an enimal emergency hospital, working with her uncle, surgeon Dr. Robert Taylor, and his associates.

Discusses emergency medicine and the work of the medical personnel who practice it.