- Hardcover: 200 pages
- Publisher: Mcgraw-Hill Book Co. (Trade); 1 edition (July 2002)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0071358811
- ISBN-13: 978-0071358811
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When he was a resident in the Massachusetts General Hospital's Medical Intensive Care Unit twenty years ago, Dr. Ted Stern decided to start a diary for all the residents in the unit, a journal where they could record their most honest thoughts about their experience, with or without attribution. In the decades that followed the diary, affectionately known as the "red book," since the first volume consisted of a red notebook, become the emotional lifeline of the unit. Sleep-deprived, emotionally traumatized residents confessed their mistakes, vented their anger, waxed eloquent in poetry and prose, recorded instances of ward humor, and analyzed the futility of it all. Now contained in a shelf full of battered binders and composition books carefully stashed in the staff room, this remarkable document gives us a rare glimpse into the inner workings of a world-class MICU and the inner lives of its tortured inhabitants. Dramatic, touching, thoughtful, and at times hilarious, the MICU diary evokes a world reminiscent of M
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*, where the conditions are hellish, the patients are desperately sick, and the staff is very, very human. Now Dr. Sheen has teamed up with a current resident, Dr. Mikkael Sekeres to cull the best of the diary entries and present them to the public. Their purpose is to show in gritty detail what goes on in an ICU, partly because it is fascinating, but mostly to encourage a greater understanding between doctors and the rest of us. While they must maintain a professional demeanor, with or without sleep, inside doctors are experiencing terror, doubt, sadness, and occasional triumph--emotions we all can relate to.
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*, where the conditions are hellish, the patients are desperately sick, and the staff is very, very human. Now Dr. Sheen has teamed up with a current resident, Dr. Mikkael Sekeres to cull the best of the diary entries and present them to the public. Their purpose is to show in gritty detail what goes on in an ICU, partly because it is fascinating, but mostly to encourage a greater understanding between doctors and the rest of us. While they must maintain a professional demeanor, with or without sleep, inside doctors are experiencing terror, doubt, sadness, and occasional triumph--emotions we all can relate to.
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