You are the ER Doc! True-to Life Cases for You to Treat - Softcover

Meyer, Peter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0962818623 ISBN 13: 9780962818622

Publisher: Avian-Cetacean Pr, 2000

Synopsis

Forty-one medical cases are presented in individual, short chapters. The patients presented are typical of what might be seen in any emergency department in the United States.

Questions and answers are worked into each patient scenario. The reader is challenged to think, and, in the process, learn about medical care in general and emergency medicine in particular.

The cases are easily understood by the interested lay public. The situations presented will help readers understand the how and why of patient care in the emergency department. Readers will gain useful and practical medical knowledge that they can apply to their own and their families' medical care.

The principles of medical practice emphazized in You are the ER Doc! would also be useful and interesting to persons with medical training such as medical students, nursing students, nurses, technicians, and even physicians.

About this title

From the Author

Author interview: · Why did you write You Are the ER Doc?
Two reasons, I guess:
First, I like to write. It seems as though certain books are just inside of me, and they need to come out.
Second, I felt the interested public would enjoy stepping into the shoes of an emergency doctor. My goal was to entertain readers and, at the same time, teach readers about medicine in general and emergency medicine in particular. This book is not a compilation of war and horror stories from the ER. Rather, it portrays what an emergency doctor faces on a daily basis, the type of decisions he or she makes on almost every patient.
· Is You Are the ER Doc based on true stories?
Yes and no. Most of the stories are a compilation of many different patients seen in my 20-year emergency medicine career. On the other hand, the first and the last chapters of the book are almost verbatim cases from real patients. Naturally, the names have been changed.
In the first episode, a young man is brought in by rescue squad. The patient has overdosed on heroin and is not breathing. The ER staff reaches in and yanks him back from inside death’s door. On awakening, the young man voices not even a thank-you. Instead, he demands a blanket because he is cold. This is the type of case that makes a doctor wonder why entered the medical profession in the first place.
In the last story, a young boy undergoes treatment for a poisonous snake bite. The lad is cooperative, stoic, and brave through some difficult therapy. This young man represents the type of patient that makes a doctor glad to be an emergency physician.
· What is your intended audience for You Are the ER Doc?
Primarily the lay public, everyday people interested in knowing what an emergency doctor really does. I also hope that young people who are thinking about a medical career will benefit from You Are the ER Doc. Young men and ladies should know what they’re getting into when they yearn to become doctors.

About the Author

Peter Meyer, MD, is a board-certified emergency physician.

About this edition

• Publisher: Avian-Cetacean Pr
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0962818623
• ISBN 13: 9780962818622
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 160