ER Books for summer reading?

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I'm a gluten for punishment. I am an ER nurse and even though I live it everyday I still watch a lot of medical shows and read entertaining medical books for fun. I was wondering if anyone had an ER/medical books for summer reading by the pool?

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Not ER but a good read is Gifted Hands. It's about the Neurosurgeon Ben Carson and how he came up from the gutter. Real quick read.

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Specializes in Nasty sammiches and Dilaudid.

Not ER-specific, but anything by Dr Atul Gawande is marvelous to read, as is Mary Roach's book "Stiff", and anything nonfiction by Bill Bass (founder of the Anthropological Research Facility at the University of Tennessee/Knoxville--aka the Body Farm)

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Specializes in Emergency, Med/Surg.

The Nurses by Alexandra Robbins.

So, so amazing.

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Specializes in Family practice, emergency.

What Cohiba said. I especially liked "Complications" by Atul Gawande. I'm not a big fiction reader, but try "Cutting for Stone" by Abraham Verghese (exceptional writer/physician). Or "The Spirit Catches you and you Fall Down" by Anne Fadiman, which is both about medical and cultural conflicts in treating a kid from Laos with epilepsy.

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Specializes in Emergency.

Glutton

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Specializes in ICU / PCU / Telemetry / Oncology.

If you ever want to take a break from reading, watch the old Emergency! TV show from the 1970's (full 6 season series is on Netflix). I've learned so much about emergency situations there and how to approach them (despite the fact that it's from a paramedic POV but scenes are interspersed from the hospital ER). Not exactly an educational show per se but it puts your ER work in perspective and you learn some new lingo 😜

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