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"A powerful, true story of life and death in a major metropolitan hospital...Harrowing... An important book."
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What is life worth? And what is a life worth living? At a time when America faces vital choices about the future of its health care, former NEW YORK TIMES correspondent Lisa Belkin takes a powerful and poignant look at the inner workings of Hermann Hospital in Houston, Texas, telling the remarkable, real-life stories of the doctors, patients, families, and hospital administrators who must ask--and ultimately answer--the most profound and heart-rendng questions about life and death.
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Great Material.......2007-03-02
This book will keep you wanting to turn the page and make it hard to put down the book. This is a great explanation of real life situations that patients and hospitals face everyday. Some of the situations that are hard for some people to understand why hospitals are concerned with matters like money and certain treatments of patients can be explained.
Inside Texas Medical Center..........2007-01-31
Lisa Belkin has created an amazing book here - she definitely did her research. The book consists of a few case studies of patients who pose ethical dilemas. Belkin takes you inside meetings of the ethics committee at the hospital, she takes you to the patient's bedside to see what the patient actually wants. Some of the patients she follows are a young kid who has been hospitalized for 15 years with a terminal condition, beating all odds by staying alive that long, several premature babies, and a man who was paralyzed almost completely after getting shot in the spine. It's a great look at medical ethics - Lisa Belkin's book asks all the right questions.
The book is in a very easy-to-read format - the stories of the patients she follows are all intertwined throughout the book. For example, you'll read about Patrick for 30-or-so pages, and then she'll switch over to update you on Taylor's story. She does this because you are reading the stories in "real time" as they happened; all of this took place in a certain time span in the hospital. It's exciting and fast-paced non-fiction - I read it in two days and didn't put it down.
It will break your heart, because often the ethics committee has to bring money into the discussion, as much as they would like to treat every patient as if money was not an issue. This book is SO worth reading, for anyone who is interested in medicine and healthcare at all.
You may laugh or may cry, but you won't put this book down.......2006-11-30
Despite the major advances in knowledge, skills, and technology in the field of medicine, this book shows that ultimately life and death fall back on the human touch. Following the workings of an Ethics Committee in a major urban hospital over several months, Belkin clearly shows that medicine continues to be as much an art as a science and in many cases there are no "right" answers, even when decisions can affect whether a patient lives or dies.
This is not a dry, mechanical review of how ethical decisions are made. Quite the opposite, the book captures your full attention from the very first page. You become fully involved in the heart-wrenching lives of actual hospital patients, as well as the no-win situations health care professionals and family members find themselves in when struggling with decisions that literally have life or death consequences.
For example, when she describes the process in which the life support devices are withdrawn from a young patient you feel you are there in the room witnessing the tragedy. Some readers might scream within their minds not to do it - perhaps there is something else can be done? Others may feel a sense of loving compassion over the ending of someone's suffering. Both types will feel incredible compassion for those who had to make the actual decision and hopefully will never have to make such a choice in their own lives.
Very Will Written .......2006-04-28
The dilemmas in this book are extraordinarily touching.
Ms.Belkin keeps your mind involved as she shifts between situations. It is hard to read the book without thinking what would you do if you were to make a decision such as those mentioned. You will enjoy reading this book especially if you are a deep thinker. I will gladly purchase her other books.
Life or Death.......2006-03-19
Want to know what it is like to have the power to say if someone lives or dies? How would you feel if it was your job to say "pull the plug"on a babies life? Great book! Makes you think.All hospitals should have a Ethics Committee.
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Neurosurgeons...the matadors of the medical profession.......2006-12-24
...as both a writer and a neurosurgeon. First of all let me say that this book is a thumping good read; one of those rare writings that grab you and takes you on that cerebro-emotional rollercoaster ride that is usually characteristic of non-fiction thrillers. A quarter of the way in you forget this book in true personal account of a neurosurgeon and as the narrative enters bestseller territory, the writers jars you back to reality with brilliant segues between
Becoming a "brain surgeon" - gruelling.......2004-09-11
Almost 30 years ago, Dr Rainer entered the medical profession as a highly trained, but extremely green and inexperienced intern. In 1987, he produced this account of his growth from new boy to neurosurgeon.
Doctors were thrown in at the deep end and - armed with libraries' worth of knowledge - were challenged to learn on the job. They would either sink or swim: taking their patients with them. Whilst the have-a-go culture is curtailed by modern expectations and medico-lawyers, the notion of "practising" medicine is no accident. Rainer and his colleagues learned their procedures on the dead, the dying and the uninsured of the hospital. Rainer vividly describes, with another new boy, putting in a first subclavian line (a big needle into the blood vessels behind the front wall of the chest) unsupervised. This was very rapidly followed by the first chest drain, when the patient's lung was punctured and collapsed.
Rainer lived, ate and slept neurosurgery. Well, lived neurosurgery. Eating and sleeping were luxuries not afforded to a trainee. It seems that training involved a continuous cycle of operating, rounding, seeing emergency cases and just a couple of hours of snatched sleep before starting over again. Like the tale told in The Intern Blues, doctors learned by doing and doing and doing. Until they could almost literally perform a procedure in their sleep. Asked, "You're not going to do my patient tired are you doctor?", Rainer replied if he didn't, he'd never operate.
For Rainer and his cohort, training and operating came first, second and third; survival fourth; family were left with the scraps. It was no surprise when marriages broke down and surgeons became married to their work. It is no surprise that Rainer, after several intense years a competent operator and good doctor, left the medical profession.
One of the best books I've ever read........2004-01-01
Having a keen interest in medical subjects, I bought this book at a discount book store to read. From almost the first page, I was entranced. I have since read this book at least four times (probably more). This book is the journey of a man with a total love of the practice of medicine. He tells of the grueling hours spent as an intern and as a resident, not so you will feel sorry for him, but rather to point out how medicine was his first love, many times to the detriment of the other things in his life.
Some of the stories he recounts are absolutely hillarious, others heartwrenching. The best recommendation I can give is that I have loaned it to several people and they each have given it highest acclaim. Dr. Rainer puts a tremendous amount of himself in this book, telling not only of his experiences in medicine, but also painting what is obviously a self-poitrait, warts and all.
I have spoken to Dr. Rainer in order to get my copy autographed, and he is now a malpractice attorney. If you read the book you'll understand why I mention this. Read this, you will not regret it.
Great book, I loaned and lost it........2002-10-20
I read this about 12 years ago when I lived in San Diego and loaned it and lost it and have been trying to find it ever since. (I kept the dust cover.) Still have it and have tried every way in the world to relocate this book. Have written and called everyone I could think of that had a link to the publishers and the Dr. Great book and so happy to find it once again.
After several years, I keep coming back to this book..........1999-05-25
I first read an abridged version of "First Do No Harm" in a copy of Reader's Digest when I was around 10 or 12 years old. After that, I sought out and found this book in my local library. Dr. Ranier's writing is honest and straightforward...He doesn't glamourize or sugar-coat medicine or the sacrifices one makes on the path to becoming an M.D. He also reflects fondly on certain life-changing encounters with patients that I myself remember and think about. Dr. Ranier practices about 40 miles from me and I'd love to meet him and thank him for this book which has not only been an important part of my library for many years now, but also turned me toward the medical profession. Outstanding!
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Shadows, Skulls, Spooks: Shadows Do No Harm, Shadow Governments Kill
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In Nineteen fifty-five a Shadow Government was established by Executive Orders, and operated covertly with success for twenty years during the very warm Cold War. Then under pressure from Congress in Nineteen Seventy-five, new Executive Orders were issued to make the Shadow Government, with its Black Chamber operations, vanish. This secret operation remained nonexistent history until exposed in Two thousand and three. This is a story about sixteen naïve young people. Upon graduating from high school on one Memorial Day, they enlisted and became highly trained and qualified Master Assassins by the following Memorial Day. They were recruited to be deadly tools of the trade for a “One Nation under God” Shadow Government. The young people were displacement specialists for dispatching humanities hemorrhoids from the “nasty now and now” into the “sweet bye and bye.” They helped balance out the political “World Order” of things, and the valuable economic benefits of the U. S. of A. around the world.
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Real food for thought.......2007-06-05
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Shadows Skulls Spooks -- two books.......2007-05-23
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Established and, 20 years later, terminated by Executive Orders, their Black Chamber units functioned in extreme secrecy. You will feel the tension and intrigue as they carry out their unbelievable assignments.
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With this important resource, health care leaders from the board room to the point-of-care can learn how to apply the science of safe and best practices from industry to healthcare by changing leadership practices, models of service delivery, and methods of communication.
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First Do No Harm: Law, Ethics, And Healthcare (Applied Legal Philosophy) (Applied Legal Philosophy) (Applied Legal Philosophy)
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Among the evils addressed by Christian theology, says Stephen Ray, must be the evil perpetuated by its own well-meant theologies. His important project examines the downside of the category of social sin, especially in theologians' use of destructive sterotypes that have kept Christians from realizing and engaging the most pervasive social evils of our time—racism and anti-Semitism.
To make his case, Ray examines problematic ways in which several theologians describe the reality of social evil. "Theologians," he contends, "often unwittingly describe [social] sin in terms that may themselves be profoundly racist, sexist, heterosexist, anti-Semitic, and classist." He contends that they must attend more carefully to the social evils deeply embedded in their own patterns of language and thought. Ray looks specifically to the work of Reinhold Neibuhr and Dietrich Bonhoeffer to document unintended consequences of theology's oversights and then to Augustine, Luther, and Calvin to analyze the strains and strengths of traditional notions.
Not only theologians and ethicists but also ministers and laity will benefit from Ray's thoughtful reconsideration of the social stance of Christian theology.
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First, Do No Harm shows how health care professionals, with the best intentions of providing excellent, holistic health care, can nonetheless perpetuate violence against vulnerable patients. The essays investigate the need to rethink contemporary healthcare practices in ways that can bring the art and science of medicine back into sorely needed balance.
These ground-breaking studies by noted scholars question commonly held assumptions in contemporary healthcare that underlie oppressive power dynamics and even violence for patients and their families. The contributors discuss such topics as women and violence, life-support technologies, and healthcare professionals’ own experiences as patients. First, Do No Harm opens the discourse for reaching new understandings, from reassessing the meaning of "quality of life" to questioning the appropriateness of the very language used by healthcare professionals. It will be welcomed by healthcare workers and by scholars in nursing, medicine, and the allied health sciences.
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Division chief of emergency services at UCLA hospital, David Spier is just as horrified as his colleagues when a madman wielding a beaker of drain cleaner attacks an ER nurse who happens to be the sister of an LAPD cop. But when he uncovers the abuse the assailant suffered as a child in a psychological experiment Spier's own mother signed off on decades ago, David puts his career in jeopardy to keep Clyde Slade safe from a policeman bent on vengeance, even after Slade attacks the woman David loves and threatens his life. Gregg Andrew Hurwitz packs the pages with enough medical details and procedures to keep ER fans satisfied until summer reruns are over with this foray into Jonathan Kellerman territory. Spier's no Alex Delaware, at least not yet, but while Hurwitz has a way to go before he approaches Delaware's creator in plotting and pacing, he's on the right track. --Jane Adams
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Someone is stalking the UCLA Medical Center -- a depraved madman who is preying upon the staff, particularly those who are young and female. No stranger to the terrible ravages of senseless violence, E.R. Chief Dr. David Spier must keep the emergency room running smoothly and efficiently, even as his terrified co-workers wonder who will be the next victim. But when the monster himself is dragged into the E.R. in handcuffs -- hideously burned, suffering, and begging for mercy -- the nightmare is far from over ... it has only just begun. A single act of humanity is about to unleash a bloody wave of horror that threatens to engulf everyone and everything Dr. Spier cares about. His most sacred oath as a healer has become a death sentence -- for David Spier ... and for a city under siege.
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A man lays siege to the UCLA Medical Center Emergency Room, attacking nurses by flinging corrosive alkali into their eyes. The first victim, the sister of a belligerent LAPD officer, is lying in critical condition when a second attack occurs, driving Los Angeles into a media frenzy. While enacting a third assault, the perpetrator accidentally spills alkali on himself, and is dragged into the ER by hostile cops. ER Chief David Spier finds himself the only person willing to treat the attacker, and - under the critical eye of an antagonistic crew of LAPD officers - he must force his own staff to uphold the Hippocratic Oath. Fighting an enraged police force, intense media scrunity, and a mutinous staff, David finds himself the unlikely protector of the deeply disturbed man who disfigured his colleagues. David elects to keep his patient safely under watch rather than releasing him that night to a vengeful police transport crew. But during the night, the assailant makes a daring and ingenious escape. Now alienated and blamed by a rageful city, David must track down the perpetrator before he strikes again. To do so, he must use his expert powers of diagnosis, and follow a trail of psychological illness that leads back to a dark and twisted history that may implicate David's own past. A gripping psychological thriller of vengeance, viciousness and clashing ideals, DO NO HARM cuts to the bone of medical ethics.
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Unfortunately boring non-thriller.......2007-07-25
David Spier is the Chief of the ER at UCLA Hospital. Amidst the typical chaos, a nurse is brought in from outside the ER doors in horrible pain suffering from extreme burns to the eyes, face, mouth, and throat. Some sort of corrosive liquid has been thrown in her face. David finds himself treating her and dealing with her upset and concerned brother, a LAPD officer. David and Officer Jenkins get off on the wrong foot which does not bode well considering both take a personal interest in solving the case and finding the attacker. But the attacker turns out to be extremely unstable and unpredictable. The police believe David is meddling in their investigation while he believes that he has the medical insight to find the suspect in ways that the police are unable. But when David becomes the primary target he must work in concert with the police or they both risk letting the bad guy escape and do more harm to other innocent victims.
This is the third novel by Hurwitz and they have steadily declined. This plot had great potential and simply fell flat. Much of David's personal grief behind the scenes of the main plot distracted and significantly slowed down the pace of the story. Further, David was not particularly sympathetic and created more trouble for himself than necessary. Instead of rooting for him to find the bad guy, the reader wants to scream at him in frustration. The pages start turning and then abruptly stop. Then the pace picks up again only to hit the skids once more. By the last third you will just be reading to finish, not because the story is providing any enjoyment. Unfortunately, this novel was a large disappointment.
Hurwitz does it again!.......2007-03-29
This the third of Greg Hurwitz's books I have read and he did not disappoint me in any way. He has a wide range of information to draw from and uses it well. These books are so real that I feel he must have been in this type of situation at some time. I really like his books!
Not Bad.......2006-02-05
I'll admit, I probably would not have picked up this book or bothered with giving it a second glance had a co-worker not lent it to me. Having done so, and having read it, I have to admit that whereas the story could have been a bit more solid, the style it was written in kept me reading on. Personally, I would have liked the whole therapy/abuse scenario to have panned out a bit more, but all in all it was a very good read.
This was a good read.......2004-11-02
This is the first book I have read by Gregg Hurwitz, it will not; however, be my last. I really liked this story from start to finish. There were a few flaws, but hey, that is why there are so many books out there. You can't please all of us all of the time.
The story is about an E.R. physician named David who finds himself tangled in a web of madness and destruction after treating a fellow hospital employee who has been attacked by a madman and alkali thrown into her face. This sets off a chain of events and David finds himself and his family more involved than he could ever have imagined.
The characters are well developed and I started feeling a certain amount of sympathy for the villian once the story unfolded enough to reveal how he became to be. I don't want to spoil the story for anyone, but it is well worth your time.
The ending left something to be desired, although the impact of the ending is evident if you pay attention to the story. Some of the events in the book were unimportant and never expounded on, leaving you to wonder why they were there, but overall, it was a fun read.
Failure to execute.......2004-09-08
This book has an interesting premise. There is a serial alkali thrower terrorizing nurses and doctors at a hospital. Of course, the mixed up fellow has motives for what and why he is doing this.
The plot meanders on for a while and then takes a number of unexpected twists and turns. It is rather odd that the main character who is so good at figuring out some things can seem to be so brain dead when it comes to basic don't go down that blind alley.
Finally, the ending did not have the kind of bang you'd expect from this kind of book.
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Do No Harm
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When pediatric resident Sarchi Semi-noux's nephew, Drew, is paralyzed, no one is able to discover the cause. Drew's only hope lies in a speculative procedure, performed by a brilliant brain surgeon unwilling to share much of what the surgery entails. Though Drew is miraculously cured, Sarchi begins to wonder if the strange side effects of the operation are the result of incompetence--or something far more sinister...
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Fast paced.. thrilling.......2002-09-16
Don Donaldson`s Do No Harm is a suspenseful medical thriller with riveting detail and heart-pounding plot.
VERY INTENSE.......2000-11-06
Dr. Sarchi Seminoux, a Memphis Pediatric resident, gets a call from Marge, her nephew's adoptive mother, that they are bringing Drew into the emergency room, and Marge wants Sarchi to be there when they arrive. Drew can't move or talk, but all his vitals are O.K., blood tests are all normal, he is breathing on his own. They put him through all kinds of tests, but they all come back normal. On the seventh day of Drew's hospitalization the HMO steps in and says that they will not pay the hospital bills unless Drew is moved to a clinic in New Orleans. Dr. Latham is a brilliant brain surgeon and he seems to think that he can help Drew, but he refuses to go into any details with Marge or Sarchi. Drew gets his operation, but Sarchi notices some side effects. Sarchi decides to look into Dr. Latham's practices, but as she does, Dr. Latham tries to ruin Sarchi's reputation. Can Sarchi make the hospital and the other Drs. see what Dr.Latham is and how he is harming patients? And can she rebuild her reputation?
Dr. Latham the villain in DO NO HARM and has a god like ego. He really believes that he has the right to use his craft in any way he chooses without, regard to the patient's future, or lack of one. To me this is the worst kind of criminal, but sure makes an interesting character to read about. Sarchi is a very bright heroine who will go to any lengths to make things right for every one. I thought the story line was very intense and has a surprise ending.
Medical Suspense Thriller Review.......2000-09-26
I was very impressed with Mr. Donaldson's work. He is a relatively new author writing medical suspense thrillers. In his latest book he takes the reader inside a pediatric training program and introduces him to a young physician who has become very concerned over a patient who develops a strange medical disorder with no apparent cause. It is a page turner you won't want to put down.
I think Donaldson compares closely to other medical suspense writers such as Cook, Gerritsen, and Palmer. Since I am a physician, I can usually read between the lines and discover where the plot is going. I also like accurate real-life medical horror that will make even the educated professional nervous about what is happening. Donaldson does all this and more in his novel. I was impressed with the story from start to finish. An excellent read for sure. Would recommend it to anyone who loves these type of novels.
Pretty good.......2000-09-06
I liked the medical setting and thought the pacing was very crisp, possibly too crisp. It was in stark contrast to a suspense novel I had read just before, called "The Erasers", by Rob Grillet.
Gripping.......2000-01-05
One of the best medical thrillers I've read. Intense and fast-paced...couldn't put it down. "Do No Harm" has the right mix of intrigue, scientific explanation, and human emotion. I will definitely look for more by Don Donaldson.
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