Pulse: Voices From the Heart of Medicine - The First Year

by Paul Gross

Every Friday, ' Voices from the heart of medicine' delivers its online readers one compelling first-person story or poem about health care. Intimate and powerful, these writings by patients and doctors, caregivers and nurses, mental health professionals and students capture real-life health care in a way that is honest, pointed and unique, opening a window into medicine at a time when millions are calling for change in the way that health care is conducted. Now collected together in a book, ' Voices from the Heart of Medicine - The First Year,' edited by Paul Gross, MD and Diane Guernsey, is every issue of Pulse's first year. 'I'm struck by the power of the writing in Pulse. It is polished, and the voices are absolutely authentic' (Maggie Mahar, author of Money-Driven Medicine). 'These beautiful stories and poems exemplify what Pulse is about - short, simple, powerful, revelatory, straight from the heart of the medical experience' (Stuart Green DMH, Behavorial Sciences Director, Overlook Hospital, Summit, New Jersey)

160 pages, Paperback

First published October 19, 2011