<p>For a college student friend who is also an EMT: looking for a book on emergency medicine/healthcare, fiction or non, classic or bestseller. Recently read “Safelight” & “Better.” Want a good page turner, not too dry or academic. Inspiring not depressing.</p>
<p>My D like this:
What Patients Taught Me by Audrey Young.</p>
<p>I haven’t read any of these, but you can read reviews on Amazon.
Try the books by Echo Heron The first three nonfiction titles have been in print for a long time–I think they must be good):
Intensive Care
Conditional Critical
Tending Lives: Nurses on the the Medical Front
also several novels</p>
<p>The Making of a Nurse by Tilda Shalof</p>
<p>Trauma Junkie: Memoirs of an Emergency Flight Nurse by Janice Hudson</p>
<p>Mountains Beyond Mountains about Dr. Paul Farmer. About medicine, not specifically emergency medicine, but an inspiring story</p>
<p>Here is a great list:</p>
<p>[Medical</a> School Handbook](<a href=“http://www.jsd.claremont.edu/MedSchoolHandbook/AppendixF.asp]Medical”>http://www.jsd.claremont.edu/MedSchoolHandbook/AppendixF.asp)</p>
<p>I really liked Michael Chrichton’s earlier books:</p>
<p>[A</a> Case of Need - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Case_of_Need]A”>A Case of Need - Wikipedia)</p>
<p>and </p>
<p>[Five</a> Patients](<a href=“http://www.michaelcrichton.net/books-fivepatients.html]Five”>http://www.michaelcrichton.net/books-fivepatients.html)</p>
<p>[The</a> Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down, by Anne Fadiman](<a href=“http://www.spiritcatchesyou.com/]The”>http://www.spiritcatchesyou.com/) About the intersection between Hmong and American Medical Culture. A classic. </p>
<p>Also, Population 485 by Michael Perry. EMT stories from rural Wisconsin, beautifully written.</p>