"Doctors heal, or try to, but as nurses we step into the breach,
figure out what needs to be done for any given patient today, on
this shift, and then, with love and exasperation, do it as best as
we can."--from Critical Care
"At my job, people die," writes Theresa Brown, capturing both
the burden and the singular importance of her profession. Brown, a
former English professor at Tufts University, chronicles here her
first year as an R.N. in medical oncology. As she does so, Brown
illuminates the unique role of nurses in health care, giving us a
deeply moving portrait of the day-to-day work nurses do: caring for
the person who is ill, not just the illness itself.
Critical Care takes us with Brown as she struggles to tend to
her patients' needs, both physical (the rigors of chemotherapy) and
emotional (their late-night fears). Along the way, we see the work
nurses do to fight for their patients' dignity, in spite of
punishing treatments and an often uncaring hospital bureaucracy. We
also see how a twelve-hour day of caring for the seriously ill
gives Brown herself a deeper appreciation of what it means to be
alive. Ultimately, this is a book about embracing life, whether in
times of sickness or health.
As she takes us into the place where patients and nurses meet,
Brown shows us the power of human connection in the face of
mortality. She does so with a keen sense of humor and remarkable
powers of observation, making Critical Care a powerful contribution
to the literature of medicine.
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