"An exploration of how caring for ER patients is more than blood and mayhem. It is the practice of being attentive to patients complicated and often broken stories as well as their broken bodies"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
Stories from the ER: a doctor shows how empathy, creativity, and imagination are the cornerstones of clinical care. To be an emergency room doctor is to be a professional listener to stories. Each patient presents a story; finding the heart of that story is the doctor's most critical task. More technology, more tests, and more data won't work if doctors get the story wrong. When caring for o…