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Nurses
From its gripping first page to its uplifting last, Nurses captures all the crisis, chaos, and craziness at the front lines of a big-city hospital and women's clinic. Funny, heart-wrenching, and always entertaining, Nurses opens the door to the lives of dedicated healers whose stories instantly become as real as our own.
Marty Lamb is a smart, savvy nurse practitioner who is director of New York's first and only nurse-run inner-city clinic, the Community Care Clinics of All Souls Women's Hospital. Heading a staff of tough, tenacious nurses, she wages the daily fight to keep the clinic running—battling administrators, executive committees, and doctors who'd rather see nurses be silent, submissive, and sexually available. And all the while Marty must help make the hard medical choices—about high-risk pregnancies, drug addicts with AIDS, and premature babies—that come with serving a poor community.
As the worst heat wave in years hits Manhattan, things are reaching the boiling point at CCC. Rumors that the hospital is being sold fuels tension as nurses pull double shifts, doctors demand less time for more money, and an inspection by the board of hospital accreditors threatens to close down the clinic. But Marty's problems are just beginning: someone is tampering with their lab tests, her best nurse has developed an addiction to painkillers, and vicious poison pen letters—from someone who seems to know everyone's deepest, darkest secrets—has the staff walking a razor's edge.
At the same time, Marty's private life seems to be on a high-speed collision course with disaster. Her schizophrenic husband, Owen, is suddenly released after years of hospitalization and shows up on her doorstep. . . just as she's renewing a relationship with Dr. Paul Giordano, the new attending physician at CCC, who loved and left her long ago for mysterious reasons of his own.
Immediate, compelling, provocative, Nurses sweeps us into the dramatic lives of care givers, women you will laugh with, cry for and remember forever.
Marty Lamb is a smart, savvy nurse practitioner who is director of New York's first and only nurse-run inner-city clinic, the Community Care Clinics of All Souls Women's Hospital. Heading a staff of tough, tenacious nurses, she wages the daily fight to keep the clinic running—battling administrators, executive committees, and doctors who'd rather see nurses be silent, submissive, and sexually available. And all the while Marty must help make the hard medical choices—about high-risk pregnancies, drug addicts with AIDS, and premature babies—that come with serving a poor community.
As the worst heat wave in years hits Manhattan, things are reaching the boiling point at CCC. Rumors that the hospital is being sold fuels tension as nurses pull double shifts, doctors demand less time for more money, and an inspection by the board of hospital accreditors threatens to close down the clinic. But Marty's problems are just beginning: someone is tampering with their lab tests, her best nurse has developed an addiction to painkillers, and vicious poison pen letters—from someone who seems to know everyone's deepest, darkest secrets—has the staff walking a razor's edge.
At the same time, Marty's private life seems to be on a high-speed collision course with disaster. Her schizophrenic husband, Owen, is suddenly released after years of hospitalization and shows up on her doorstep. . . just as she's renewing a relationship with Dr. Paul Giordano, the new attending physician at CCC, who loved and left her long ago for mysterious reasons of his own.
Immediate, compelling, provocative, Nurses sweeps us into the dramatic lives of care givers, women you will laugh with, cry for and remember forever.
- GenresMedical
Mass Market Paperback
First published January 1, 1996
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Displaying 1 - 7 of 7 reviews
February 19, 2020
Drama .. Livro não recente, mas os temas abordados continuam muito atualizados ! Aconselho !
March 11, 2023
All in all, not terrible, but not great, either.
I had read "Like Mother, Like Daughter" and found it oddly compelling despite its' many glaring flaws. This book was similar.
It reads like a romance novel, and the "whodunnit" of the anonymous person plaguing the hospital was so obvious I figured it out in the first few pages. (and I'm usually not great at solving mysteries. It was just pretty transparent.)
A nice, light read, basically.
I had read "Like Mother, Like Daughter" and found it oddly compelling despite its' many glaring flaws. This book was similar.
It reads like a romance novel, and the "whodunnit" of the anonymous person plaguing the hospital was so obvious I figured it out in the first few pages. (and I'm usually not great at solving mysteries. It was just pretty transparent.)
A nice, light read, basically.
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October 5, 2018
Picked this book up at a library book sale. Have always loved medical TV series, so thought I would give this a try. Not a lot of medical jargon, so easy to read. Lots going on - drugs, mental illness, abortions, midwifery, affairs, etc., but all believable and although there are quite a few characters, not difficult to follow. Read in no time.
May 7, 2024
Solid and very real. This story tries to be compelling. It succeeds to a large degree. Decent medical drama.
May 10, 2014
This book was awful. It actually took me 6 weeks to read it! I kept giving up but it was all I had so I kept plugging away. It was incredibly boring, a waste of time.
October 28, 2009
Early beginnings of neighbourhood clinics. Doesn't do it for me. Read 66 pages and put it down!
September 5, 2015
É um livro lindissimo...
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