One Night in the ER

De: G. Scott McCreadie

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

Follow Dr. Jim McCray through a single twelve-hour night shift working in the emergency room of a small Midwestern hospital. The fast-paced writing chronicles Dr. McCray’s experience with wit and candor as he manages a series of typical but poignant patient interactions. The book dives deeply into the practice of modern emergency medicine with detailed descriptions of medical care and procedures. It is based on the author’s real-life experiences as a young resident physician.

Medical Terminology Storytime

I am studying Medical Terminology as I begin my journey to a nursing degree. I thought I should listen to some books with lots of medical terminology so I could hear things in context in addition to learning terms. I hope to be an ER nurse so the title stood out to me. I was more than I could have hoped for. I could pause and translate words along the way. It was just the right about of technical knowledge and entertaining story.

I am sure I would have liked it more with a real narrator, but I sped it up to 1.2 to make it better.

great heart of a young doctor

I loved the book, but highly dislike mechanical robot voice of a computer reading this book. Give us live people to read people’s stories!

Real Life!

As an ER nurse, pretty much have experienced similar situations and then some! Much respect for this provider. Forgot it was AI after first chapter

content

truthfulness and accuracy of the doctor's job. Learning the components of doctor's job skills is interesting.

ONITER

It was a decent book overall. However, I found the author/doctor to be insensitive at parts and quite arrogant.

Real-life Drama

If you like medical dramas, this is a good one! The stories that this ER doctor lives through are intriguing! He does a good of being compassionate. If I were in the midst of a medical crisis, I’d want him to be my physician!

Great Story and Experiences. Bad narration.

I love medical thrillers and tv shows so this was a no-brainer to listen to next. I especially liked that the author was an E.R. Physician with experiences that are not like what's seen on tv or movies at all. It gives a new perspective. His accounts of pain medicine seeking patients was a little offensive to me as a chronic pain patient. I wish they did have a Pain Meter to prove I'm no.addict and the addiction rates have made it extremely difficult for me to get effective medication. I have never gone to the E.R. for pain, even with radiculopathy that was severely painful from my neck to my fingertips. I just had neurosurgery to remove the bone trapping a nerve root after 2 years of many doctors acting like I was an addict. But I understand the view. An MRI showing severe nerve root entrapment was not even enough for meds for me for the first year. I finally saw a neurosurgeon and got pain meds. I do appreciate him explaining that nuance and the effects addiction can have in an overrun ER. That's why I never went. I just suffered. Toradol at tje doctor office didn't do anything for the pain for now than 15 minutes unfortunately. The author was spot on with his statement about rating pain an 8 so it doesn't seem like we're seeking meds when we are seeking relief. I have to say the AI narration annoyed me some. I know it's just me being persnickety but the repeated mispronunciation of Versed (ver-sed) as one syllable "versed", and leads as "leds", O.R. becoming "or", etc. detracted from the enjoyment. This audiobook would be amazing with an actual narrator. Wonderful inside look at the life on a small ER doc, I appreciated it.

The AI is actually pretty good

Sounds better than you would think. Struggles with some acronyms though. The story is interesting too.

Engaging book

I learned a lot from this book. A great insight into a day in the life of an ER doctor

Horrible AI voice reading

Almost unbearable finishing this book due to the AI voice reading. Please stick to humans reading audio books.