Nurses - Hardcover

Rose, Marcia

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0345388933 ISBN 13: 9780345388933

Verlag: Ballantine Books, 1996

Inhaltsangabe

In the wake of a severe heat wave in Manhattan, Marty Lamb finds challenges in her best nurse's addiction to pain killers, threatening letters that target her staff, and her husband's release from a mental hospital. 25,000 first printing.

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Marcia Rose worked for many years in a major metropolitan hospital in New York City, where she researched, designed, and wrote an award-winning magazine. She is the author of two other "true medicine" bestselling novels, Hospital and Admissions, as well as the New York Times bestseller All for the Love of Daddy; Songs My Father Taught Me; Like Mother, Like Daughter; and others.<br><br><br><i>From the Paperback edition.</i>

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pping 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.<br>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. <br>As the worse heat wave in years hits Manhattan, things are reaching the boiling point at CCC. Rumors th

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Ballantine Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1996
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0345388933
• ISBN 13: 9780345388933
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 375
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