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Life on the ground floor : letters from the edge of emergency medicine
- Title
- Life on the ground floor : letters from the edge of emergency medicine / James Maskalyk, M.D.
- Author
- Maskalyk, James, 1973-
- Publication
- [Toronto] : Doubleday Canada, [2017]
- ©2017
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFD 17-3774 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- 254 pages : illustrations; 22 cm
- Summary
- "A celebrated humanitarian doctor's unique perspective on sickness, health and what it is to be alive. In this deeply personal book, humanitarian doctor and activist James Maskalyk, author of the highly acclaimed Six Months in Sudan, draws upon his experience treating patients in the world's emergency rooms. From Toronto to Addis Ababa, Cambodia to Bolivia, he discovers that although the cultures, resources and medical challenges of each hospital may differ, they are linked indelibly by the ground floor: the location of their emergency rooms. Here, on the ground floor, is where Dr. Maskalyk witnesses the story of "human aliveness"--our mourning and laughter, tragedies and hopes, the frailty of being and the resilience of the human spirit. And it's here too that he is swept into the story, confronting his fears and doubts and questioning what it is to be a doctor. Masterfully written and artfully structured, Life on the Ground Floor is more than just an emergency doctor's memoir or travelogue--it's a meditation on health, sickness and the wonder of human life."--
- Subjects
- Additional Formats (note)
- Issued also in electronic format.
- Call Number
- JFD 17-3774
- ISBN
- 9780385665971
- 0385665970
- OCLC
- 949823424
- Author
- Maskalyk, James, 1973- author.
- Title
- Life on the ground floor : letters from the edge of emergency medicine / James Maskalyk, M.D.
- Publisher
- [Toronto] : Doubleday Canada, [2017]
- Copyright Date
- ©2017
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Additional Formats
- Issued also in electronic format.
- Other Form:
- Maskalyk, James, 1973-, author. Life on the ground floor. (CaOONL)20169030105
- Research Call Number
- JFD 17-3774