intensive care units

"A critical care doctor's . . . stories about what it means to be saved by modern medicine [and] what comes after for those whose lives are extended by days, months, or years as a result of our treatments and technologies. . . . Lamas explores the complex answers to this question through intimate accounts of patients and their families. A grandfather whose failing heart has been replaced by a battery-operated pump; a salesman who found himself a kidney donor on social media; a college student who survived a near fatal overdose and returned home, alive but not the same; and a young woman navigating an adulthood she never thought she'd live to see--these moving narratives paint a detailed picture of the fragile border between sickness and health"--Provided by publisher.

Examines the many life altering decisions made at a hospital's cancer ward and the stories behind four lives that were changed in this one day during the author's shift there as a nurse.

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.

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.