People of the ER

By: Philip Allen Green MD

Narrated by: David de Vries

Length: 5 hrs and 38 mins

Publisher's summary

Standing in the trauma room of an emergency department is like standing at ground zero of a nuclear reaction, only it's not radiation that is released - but stories. Stories that are told and retold, sometimes just until the end of the shift, but sometimes for decades.

A survivor of domestic violence makes it to the hospital but cannot trust anyone. An anonymous man passes away after being taken to the emergency room, and no one can identify him. The spouse of a cancer patient must decide whether to force her to undergo chemotherapy or to let her pass away in peace.

These stories - and all the rest in People of the ER - grapple with what it means to be human in the face of trauma and death.

Written by the author of Trauma Room Two, People of the ER delves deeper into the lives of the patients and staff that work in a small, rural emergency room.

©2017 Philip Allen Green (P)2017 Tantor

For anyone working in the ER

I’ve worked in the ER for a little over six years, and I plan to be there for my entire nursing career. The ER is my second home and where I feel the most comfortable and at ease. This book captures similar thoughts and emotions I have intermittently had throughout my career. Many times I found myself nodding to a story and reflected on my own thoughts and biases.

Well done

I’ll never know how good a doctor you are - my guess is a very good one - but as a storyteller and chronicler of the best and worst of us, I find you to be amazing! I’ve read both your books and loved every minute of each. Keep up the good work!

Great story-telling!!

Wonderful book! I wish he published more books. Easy listening and very enjoyable! I love hearing a doctor’s point of view.

A Practitioner Must Read

After years in medicine, I thought I’d become hardened to it all. Nothing touched me anymore. Enter Dr Green stage left. This book realigned all I’d come to believe about medicine, emergencies and people. But this author manages to do so with the warmth of a kind mentor, a friend, a confidant that won’t tell everyone about you laughing, crying and yelling at every chapter. Well done, Doc. Well done.

Great read

Some very memorable stories here. I read this in an attempt to get inside the mind of someone I know, who works in a hospital. Not only did it help with that, but it had a few pretty nice illustrations of how to reframe trauma, so as to be able to move forward.

deeply moving and insightful

Written by a true humanitarian who has a remarkable ability to peer deeply into the depth of grief, trauma, loss, and what it means to be a human being as witness to others and their time of greatest need as they arrive in the emergency department after life-changing events have occurred. The title does not do it justice and as much more then life in the emergency department.

Accurate

Accurate portrayal of glimpses into the point-of-view of a provider in the ER of a rural hospital.

Not at all what I expected. SO much better!

This book was unexpected as it read like a beautifully written story, not a ER account. The personal side of the doctors most memorable patients really brought the book to life.
The story of Nathan, the 94 year old farmer, almost made me cry with the respect and dignity this man was given by all in his life. WELL worth the listen.

DON'T pay attention to the timeline in the Josalyn story

Some of these stories will touch your soul and make you grab for tissues. This is the 16th book of the year for me and honestly, the best of them.

Real people real stories

Stories about hospitals always capture my attention.. being one of the people who rarely step out of the hospital, it is easy the forget for every patient there is a story and for every person there is story