ER Sketches: Tales from an ER

by Carol Jarmel-Fishman

In a busy urban Emergency Department the staff must balance their professional lives with their own personal and family struggles. This book contains interconnected short stories in which the doctors, nurses and other staff members attempt to keep separate these two spheres of their lives, for to
allow them to overlap would make their lives even more difficult. Pain, tragedy, humor and compassion fill these pages as events unfold and
the characters struggle to maintain equilibrium; the author is a retired ER nurse, and these stories are all based on real people and incidents.

133 pages, Kindle Edition

First published May 12, 2015

Reviews

[Gail · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book consists of short chapters telling about various stories about the patients, families and ER personalities. They all tell stories about how it really is in a large busy ER. All except for the final chapter which although interesting has no connection to medicine or other stories in this book.

[Dan Stern · Rating 4 out of 5]

Well! I thought it would be “Tales of the ER”, and what I got was a beautiful collection of linked short stories (not a format I usually enjoy) that were compelling and informative. In this case, fiction was a better read than the usual gross or funny recollections of any ER denizen.
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[Suzanne E. Chisum · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good book

This was a good book, up until the last and longest story which had little to do with nursing, and more with sailing the Caribbean and social change for the races there. I did enjoy it, just not what I expected.

[Sharon Davis · Rating 3 out of 5]

More Please

I was relaxing and reading this book when an awful.thing happened, the book ended. Her description of a nurse who made Christmas for
Two desperate children was well done.