Download or read book The Sky Was Falling written by Cornelia Griggs and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2024-03-12 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER The dramatic, unforgettable, and ultimately cathartic diary of a young pediatric surgeon and mother working on the front lines as the COVID-19 pandemic hit one of New York City’s busiest hospitals. In the spring of 2020, many of us were sequestered in our homes, attempting to teach our children and learn to bake while the pings of news alerts and wails of sirens reminded us of the devastation outside. Dr. Cornelia Griggs’s experience was nothing like ours. A pediatric surgery fellow in New York City, Griggs was entering the final victory lap at the end of nine grueling years of training. She was set for a big graduation celebration and looking forward to spending some real time with her husband and two toddlers. When COVID-19 arrived, Griggs initially encouraged her friends and family not to panic. But as mysterious cases began showing up in the hospital, and then hospital supplies started disappearing from shelves, she couldn’t hold back the feeling that this was going to be worse than she had thought. Out of frustration and fear, she penned a startling op-ed in The New York Times that went, for lack of a better word, viral. The piece was read by over a million people, and Griggs appeared on CNN. Now, she is completing her story. The Sky Was Falling is her day-by-day account of the staggering case numbers, dwindling respirator supply, and lack of clarity on how to treat this new disease. Harrowing and deeply personal, it reads like an all-too-real white-knuckle thriller and describes how healthcare professionals went beyond what they thought they were capable of to heal their patients, and themselves.

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Download or read book Health Crisis Management in Acute Care Hospitals written by Ridwan Shabsigh and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-03-28 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the USA, the COVID-19 crisis came as an unpleasant surprise and a shock to many healthcare systems and hospitals, especially in the crisis epicenter, New York City. The Bronx was one of the hardest hit boroughs of New York City, with significant negative impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on its indigent population. SBH Health System (formerly known as St. Barnabas Hospital) is an integrated system of an acute care hospital, ambulatory care center, trauma center, dialysis center, stroke center and other services and facilities, serving the community of the Bronx. The story of SBH in preparing for and managing the rapidly escalating surge of severely ill patients is a treasure of lessons in health crisis preparedness and management at all levels: clinical, administrative, financial, etc. These lessons can be used for other acute care hospital settings and other potential health crises that may arise in the future. Within a short 3 weeks, SBH increased its in-patient capacity by 50%. However, during the same short time, it increased its critical care capacity by over 500%, providing critical care to severely ill patients on ventilators. This book chronicles the situation step by step and describes how this accomplishment was done. Accounts from the frontline health workers and from the clinical and administrative leaders describe important aspects of crisis management, such as team building, multi-departmental coordination, effective communications, dynamic decision-making in response to rapidly changing situations, keeping up the morale and caring for the healthcare workers and managing the supply chain. The uniqueness of the experience of SBH is enhanced by the fact that SBH is a low budget “safety net” hospital serving the poorest population in New York City. The worldwide trend is toward tighter healthcare budgets with demands for higher efficiency and productivity. There is a lot to be learned from the SBH health crisis management, including how efficient management, team building, management of limited resources and collaborative workplace culture make the foundation of success in the face of the crisis of the century. This unique text serves as a “how to” guide for implementing skills necessary for crisis management. Lessons from the success of SBH in tackling the dramatically fast unfolding crisis are utilized in a clear and concise manner. Such lessons may benefit other health systems and hospitals in planning and preparing for similar crises.

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Download or read book Passing the General Surgery Oral Board Exam written by Marc A. Neff and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-06-08 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a realistic approach to preparing for the exam. Provides tips on identifiying the wrong answers. Dr. Neff provides one proven sucessful strategy to preparing for the entire exam; competition offers a variety of approaches, giving little credibility to any single one.

Download or read book The Unsung Heroes of Paediatric Medicine written by Ernest Cutz and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2020 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Within the world of medicine, the work the pathologist does is integral to positive patient outcomes, but it is rare for the pathologist to actually have any interaction with their patients. Thus, their work can often go unrecognized and uncelebrated. The Unsung Heroes of Paediatric Medicine paints a broad portrait of the myriad facets that go into the making of a superb department of paediatric pathology. Not only is it the science, but it is also the people that helped to make a department such as this grow and flourish, becoming one of the best, if not the best, in North America. Within these pages, Dr. Cutz walks the reader through a century of pediatric pathology at Sick Kids Hospital in Toronto, Ontario. Building on both personal experience and archival material, Dr. Cutz’s memoir touches on the history of pathology and the evolution of pediatric pathology, then moves into a detailed overview of both the leadership and staff of the Department of Pathology at Sick Kids Hospital. In addition, readers can follow Dr. Cutz’s personal journey from his research fellowship to his beginnings as a staff pathologist, ending with his research advances and breakthroughs all made whilst a pathologist at Sick kids. Unsung Heroes also touches on controversies, tragedies, and challenging events from the hospital's history, including digoxin, the Olivieri affair, the rise and fall of Charles Smith, and the Mother Risk controversy, among others.

Download or read book Critical Thinking in Respiratory Care written by Shelley C. Mishoe and published by McGraw-Hill/Appleton & Lange. This book was released on 2001-06 with total page 724 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This basic text teaches respiratory therapy content in a framework that promotes students' decision-making skills. The problem-based learning approach relies on clinical cases and a systematic method in which students may develop a deep and broad understanding of respiratory care content on sound clinical decision making. Topics covered include communication and negotiation skills, patient assessment and writing care plans, patient education, and ethical and cost considerations.

Download or read book Year of the Nurse A Covid 19 Pandemic Memoir written by Cassandra Alexander and published by Cassie Alexander. This book was released on 2021-07-19 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is for anyone, nurse or otherwise, who is furious about how 2020 went down and—how 2021 is going. On April 25th, 2021 at 10:55 in the morning I messaged my chat group of girlfriends from where I work as a nurse on an ICU floor: “Nothing like feeling strongly suicidal at a job where you’re supposed to be keeping people alive,” and then tweeted that my “mental health wasn’t great” and deleted the Twitter app off of my phone because I didn’t want to “overshare.” That I felt like dying. That I would’ve rather died than still be at work. I am not alone. In 2020 there were roughly four million nurses in America. Only 2.7 million U.S. soldiers fought in the Vietnam War. Those who came back from Vietnam, having witnessed atrocities—and in some cases, participated in them—were changed forever. You can’t send four million people into a wartime-equivalent situation without psychological consequences. And yet that’s what America has done. Nurses spent a year battling a largely unknown assailant. Running low on gear. Fearing we might bring something deadly home. Getting coughed on by people who pretended that our fights were imaginary, that our struggles—watching people die, day after day, no matter what we did—were literally fake. Nurses are scarred. And unless people understand what we went through and commit to never let anyone lie in the future about public health, we will never become whole. Year of the Nurse: A Covid-19 Pandemic Memoir is Cassandra Alexander's poignant effort to come to grips with suicidal ideation and PTSD after being a covid nurse in an ICU in 2020. Comprised of original essays and her chronological journals, tweets, and emails as she attempted to save lives, including her own—this book will let you experience last year from the bedside. Come and understand what it was like.

Download or read book Sensing the Rhythm written by Mandy Harvey and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-09-26 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The inspiring true story of a young woman who became deaf at age 19 while pursuing a degree in music--and how she overcame adversity and found the courage to live out her dreams.

Download or read book My Mom Is a Respiratory Therapist written by Tabatha Dragonberry and published by . This book was released on 2021-08-10 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Our Allies Have Become Our Enemies written by Dr. Deane Waldman, MD MBA and published by ADM Books. This book was released on 2016-03-17 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our Allies Have Become Our Enemies: You Need This Book to Protect Yourself … From Healthcare! The system that is supposed to nurture, protect and restore you is actually a leach, not a life-saver. Your trusted ally is in fact your fierce enemy. How did this happen? What must you do to protect yourself and your loved ones? In Our Allies Have Become Our Enemies, you will see how healthcare people and organizations originally created to serve you have turned into piranhas. • The system feeds off of you. • Your doctors has no time for you, by law! • The sicker you are, the more money hospitals and Big Pharma get. • Insurance makes profit by denying, delaying or deferring needed care. • And Washington, well, wait till you feel the bite of its BARRC! In Our Allies Have Become Our Enemies, you see how all this happened and what you must do in your own defense. The first step is the hardest: Trust no one, not even me. Depend only on yourself. Demand evidence from anyone who claims to act in your best interest—doctor, politician or advocate. The only person you should trust is…You. Our Allies Have Become Our Enemies is where you start your journey of truth to get the health care, two words—the service, you and your family need.

Download or read book Pandemic Providers written by Charles R. Figley and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-06-08 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emanating from a working group of the American Psychological Association, this comprehensive volume provides a blueprint for pandemic preparedness for health and mental health professionals. It reviews the actual experiences faced by practitioners during the current Covid crisis, and provides historical context of past health crises, such as the 1918 flu epidemic. Lessons learned from previous health disasters are utilized to provide guidelines and best practices for managing large scale health crises. The goal of this book is to offer the tools for health providers to mobilize, collaborate and provide effective and compassionate services. Relevant to psychologists, psychiatrists, nurses, social workers and others, this volume is an invaluable resource for the present and for the inevitable pandemics to come.

Download or read book Your Critically Ill Child written by Christopher Johnson and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explains how and where to find medical treatments and technology how to navigate the medical labyrinth, and provides vital checklists and advice for parents.

Download or read book E R Nurses written by James Patterson and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2021-10-11 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They save our lives every day, and we’ve never heard their stories. The life-or-death intensity of working on the front lines, from America’s greatest unsung heroes. “The compassion, the work ethic, and the selflessness of nurses … are given the respect they deserve and captured beautifully here.” –Sanjay Gupta, MD, neurosurgeon and chief medical correspondent, CNN "James Patterson's account of the twilight world between life and death that nurses inhabit is one of the most moving things I have ever read.” –Sebastian Junger, author of Freedom and The Perfect Storm Around the clock, across the country, these highly skilled and compassionate men and women sacrifice and struggle for us and our families. You have never heard their true stories. Not like this. From big-city and small-town hospitals. From behind the scenes. From the heart. This book will make you laugh, make you cry, make you understand. When we’re at our worst, E.R. nurses are at their best.

Download or read book Saving the Soul of Medicine written by Margaret A. Mahony and published by Robert Reed Publishers. This book was released on 2000 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Take an intimate journey with a concerned doctor during her last year in managed health care (often called 'mis-managed' or 'mangled' care). This is a timely and honest look at what works and what doesn't in the world of medicine. Explore the AMAs 'Code of Medical Ethics'. Based on hundreds of true stories and viewpoints of patients, doctors, nurses, and others in the health care field. These inspiring essays demonstrate the spiritual dimension of the physician -- patient relationship.

Download or read book A Super Ion Called Magnesium written by Dr. Gopi Ayyaswamy and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2023-10-31 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We're delighted to present this illuminating book, offering a deep attention into the emerging world of magnesium and its profound impact on our health. Magnesium, often underrated, emerges as a true super ion, deserving recognition for its indispensable role in upholding our well-being. This book is the culmination of extensive research, drawing from a rich collection of literature and expert insights to unveil magnesium's multifaceted benefits.

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