Theresa Brown’s book Critical Care: A New Nurse Faces Death, Life, and Everything in Between (HarperStudio, 2010) is available at your favorite book store or on-line retailer.
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“Among all the recent books on medicine, Critical Care stands alone. It is a beautifully written account of a nurse’s first year on the wards, a medical memoir that combines lyricism and compassion with searing honesty and well-timed laugh-out-loud wit. What Theresa Brown has managed to do with her book is precisely what the best of nurses do with their patients – focus always on the heart of what matters. I loved this book.”
Pauline Chen, M.D., author of Final Exam
“If Theresa Brown tends her patients as well as she tells her story, they are lucky patients indeed. This absorbing dispatch from the front lines of medical care captures the daily travails and triumphs of nursing with humor, compassion, and sometimes terrifying immediacy.”
Lisa Salomon, author of Hospital and The Devil’s Candy
“Critical Care is a gift from an English-teacher-turned-nurse who writes from a deeply human context about her first year in a hospital oncology ward. Nurse Theresa Brown has given us a book of stirring stories about how we live, care for the sick, and die. Fasten your set belts and get ready for a memorable read.”
Richard M. Cohen, author of Blindsided and Strong at the Broken Places
“A must read for anyone who wants to understand health care. This extraordinary book will open your eyes to the reality of nursing. If you or your loved one ends up in the hospital, you’ll wish you had someone like Nurse Brown at your side.”
Elizabeth Cohen, CNN Senior Medical Correspondent
Theresa Brown’s essay “Perhaps Death Is Proud,” which originally appeared in the New York Times Science Times on September 9, 2008, has been reprinted in the anthologies Best American Science Writing 2009 (Natalie Angier, Editor) and Best American Medical Writing 2009 (Pauline Chen, Editor)
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Theresa just got the contract for her second book, The Shift. It will be published by Algonquin Press. Manuscript is due December 2013. Visit the TEDMED online forum The Role of the Patient. Theresa is one of the panelists. Watch Theresa’s appearance on MSNBC’s Hardball with Chris Matthews, June 28, 2012, commenting about the Supreme [...]
