Trauma

By James Cole

Trauma - James Cole
  • Release Date: 2011-10-11
  • Genre: Biographies & Memoirs
Score: 4.5
4.5
From 104 Ratings

Description

In this pulse-pounding medical memoir, trauma surgeon James Cole takes readers straight into the ER, where anything can and does happen.

TRAUMA is Dr. Cole's harrowing account of his life spent in the ER and on the battlegrounds, fighting to save lives. In addition to his gripping stories of treating victims of gunshot wounds, stabbings, attempted suicides, flesh-eating bacteria, car crashes, industrial accidents, murder, and war, the book also covers the years during Cole's residency training when he was faced with 120-hour work weeks, excessive sleep deprivation, and the pressures of having to manage people dying of traumatic injury, often with little support.

Unlike the authors of other medical memoirs, Cole trained to be a surgeon in the military and served as a physician member of a Marine Corps reconnaissance unit, United States Special Operations Command (USSOCOM), and on a Navy Reserve SEAL team. From treating war casualties in Afghanistan and Iraq to his experiences as a civilian trauma surgeon treating alcoholics, drug addicts, criminals, and the mentally deranged, TRAUMA is an intense look at one man's commitment to his country and to those most desperately in need of aid.

Reviews

  • AWESOME!

    5
    By bballsoccer3016
    This book has oly made me want to pursue a career in medicine more. I have always been interested in becoming a truma surgeon and this book takes you inside the life of one and what it takes to be a skilled trauma surgeon! One of the best books I have ever read!
  • Best book ever

    5
    By Alicia C. Martin
    This is an unbelievable life lesson for every American to read, feel and embrace what MD's, soldiers, medics, nurses, enlisted and the United Staes of America sacrifice for our freedom on a daily basis! Congrats on a job well done Dr. Cole.
  • Great book

    5
    By hjkg100
    Realistic informative and interesting read