Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
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Audiobook6 hours
Tending Lives: Nurses on the Medical Front
Written by Echo Heron
Narrated by Full Cast
Rating: 2.5 out of 5 stars
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About this audiobook
As the healthcare debate rages on with the growth of the HMO industry, nurses quietly continue to provide the day-to-day grit and deeply-felt passion that hold the healing profession together. Within these remarkable women and men are poignant, outrageous stories drawn from the edge of life. But fear of career backlash and reprisals have made them reluctant to talk to outsiders about their experience. Now Echo Heron, New York Times bestselling author of Intensive Care, draws truths far stranger than fiction out of her colleagues—and allows the nurses to speak to us in their own words.
Ranging from inspiring to tragic to outrageously funny, these narratives are real life medical dramas as experienced by nurses across the country—each practicing in a variety of specialties, including cardiac care, labor and delivery, burns, the ER—even a nurse who works in dolphin care.
Tending Lives portrays a penitentiary nurse responsible for orchestrating a murderer's execution; a stroke victim who rose out of his depression when his nurses began telling him jokes; and, perhaps the most riveting testimony, the moment-by-moment memories of several nurses who served in the aftermath of the Oklahoma City bombing—gripping accounts that give us new perspectives on the horror and heroism of that nightmare day.
Pediatric nurses, psychiatric nurses, home-care nurses, intensive care nurses—all with distinct voices and unique stories to tell. Filled with both tears and laughter, and charged with the issues that afflict nursing care today, Tending Lives is a gripping, moving, inspiring audiobook, a fitting tribute to a noble profession.
Author
Echo Heron
Echo Heron is the award-winning, bestselling author of Intensive Care: The Story of a Nurse. Some of her other works include Emergency 24/7, Condition Critical, and Mercy.
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Reviews for Tending Lives
Rating: 2.64 out of 5 stars
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This is such a great book. One of the first couple of stories were so funny I was laughing out loud. Unfortunately, as the book goes on it gets a bit more complicated. I enjoyed it quite a bit!
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The concept of two imperfect people coming together was appealing and well-written, yet the humor didn't seem to materialize as promised by other reviews.