Full name: Burn Unit: Saving Lives After the Flames

Author: Barbara Ravage Year: 2004 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Non Fiction Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780306814198 0306814196

"A compelling blend of science, history and storytelling. Barbara Ravage has fashioned an enlightening, invaluable book." --Stewart O'Nan, author of The Circus Fire: A True Story of an American TragedyThough each of us is just a spark away from being a burn victim, the public knows little and understands less about the world that patients inhabit. Pulling the curtains back on this private and sterile environment, Burn Unit is a riveting account of the frontline efforts--both modern-day and historical--to save lives devastated by fire. With unflinching urgency, Barbara Ravage follows an extraordinary team of healers at Massachusetts General Hospital, the cradle of modern burn treatment and the site of one of the best burn units in the world. From Boston's Cocoanut Grove fire of 1942 to the treatment of the victims of the Rhode Island nightclub fire in early 2003, we watch everyday heroes do their incredible but punishing work against the backdrop of history. Both a moving human drama and an engrossing scientific exploration of this little-known field of medicine, Burn Unit is an unforgettably powerful read. Similar books: Just Here Trying to Save a Few Lives by Pamela Grim Emergency! by Mark Brown Your Medical Mind by Jerome Groopman Every Patient Tells a Story by Lisa Sanders The Woman Who Swallowed a Toothbrush by Rob Myers First, Do No Harm by Lisa Belkin On Call by Emily R. Transue The Blood of Strangers by Frank Huyler One Doctor by Brendan Reilly MD Something for the Pain by Paul Austin Hot Lights, Cold Steel by Michael J. Collins A Not Entirely Benign Procedure by Perri Klass The Intern Blues by Robert Marion How We Do Harm by Otis Webb Brawley Paramedic by Peter Canning Fervent by Priscilla Shirer The Amazing Book is Not on Fire by Dan Howell The Adventurous Eaters Club by Misha Collins The C Programming Language by Brian W. Kernighan Me and White Supremacy by Layla F. Saad