Trauma: My Life as an Emergency Surgeon

Trauma: My Life as an Emergency Surgeon

In this pulse-pounding medical memoir, trauma surgeon James Cole takes readers straight into the ER, where anything can and does happen.

TRAUMA is Dr. Cole's harrowing account of his life spent in the ER and on the battlegrounds, fighting to save lives. In addition to his gripping stories of treatingÂ victimsÂ of gunshot wounds, stabbings, attempted suicides, flesh-eating bacteria, car crashes, industrial accidents, murder, and war, the book also covers the years during Cole's residency training when he was faced with 120-hour work weeks, excessive sleep deprivation, and the pressures ofÂ having to manage people dying of traumatic injury, often with little support.
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Unlike the authors of other medical memoirs, Cole trained to be a surgeon in the military andÂ served as a physician member of a Marine Corps reconnaissance unit, United States Special Operations Command (USSOCOM), and on a Navy Reserve SEAL team.Â From treating war casualties in Afghanistan and Iraq toÂ hisÂ experiences as a civilian trauma surgeon treating alcoholics, drug addicts, criminals, and the mentally deranged, TRAUMA is an intense look atÂ one man's commitment to his country and to those most desperately in need of aid.
Country USA
Manufacturer St. Martin's Press
Binding Hardcover
ReleaseDate 2011-10-11
EANs 9780312552220

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