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.

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 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.

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.

AI narrator and prejudices galore!

First of all, if you are going to have a book about an emergency department, and you are going to have an AI narrated, you should teach it to say E. D. Instead of pronouncing it like the name Ed. You should be sure that it is pronouncing medical terminology correctly, because not doing so is incredibly distracting. So that’s just the service level stuff.

No to get into the story, the author/main character/narrator quickly shows himself to be fat phobic, misogynistic, anti-abortion, anti-poor, and with a terrible grasp on mental health issues. He judges his patient, at one point has to summon all of his professional strength, not to look at the breasts of a beautiful patient, and in general shows himself to be a real ass.

I was hoping for something that would satisfy my desire for a book that reminded me of Grey’s Anatomy or ER. This most certainly wasn’t it.