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Nursing Book ClubTaking Care By Sarah DiGregorioThe Story of Nursing and Its Power to Change Our WorldFreelance journalist Sarah DiGregorio is not a nurse, but she has had intimate exposure to nursing through the death of her mother, her own emergency surgery, and the premature birth of her daughter (recounted in her previous book, Early), as well as...
Nursing Book ClubStepping Back from the Ledge by Laura TrujilloA Daughter’s Search for Truth and RenewalStepping Back from the Ledge is a short memoir (only 195 pages) in which author and journalist Laura Trujillo details her personal history of trauma and her mother’s suicide. She tries to connect the dots as she blames herself for the death, but the...
Nursing Book ClubThe Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness by Meghan O’RourkeThe personal and social impact of unexplained and chronic conditionsIt can be difficult to separate our physical condition from our psychological or emotional state. Symptoms like fatigue, headache, and digestive upset can indicate anything from viral infection to too much stress and too little sleep, and after a while,...

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Nursing Book ClubThe Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne FadimanA Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures Back in 1997, Anne Fadiman wrote The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down, documenting the experience of a Hmong family in Merced, Calif., 10 years earlier. The book, which won the National Book Critics Award, was a wake-up call on the need for cultural...
Nursing Book ClubHer Hidden Genius by Marie BenedictThis historical novel looks at the dark side of the discovery of DNAJames Watson won a Nobel Prize in 1962 for discovering the double helix structure of DNA. He maintained the answer to the puzzle came to him in a dream in 1953. Her Hidden Genius, a novel by Marie Benedict, tells a different story Her Hidden Genius is...
Nursing Book ClubThe Emergency: A Year of Healing and Heartbreak in a Chicago ER by Thomas FisherA pandemic memoir and personal look at racial disparities in healthcare The Emergency: A Year of Healing and Heartbreak in a Chicago ER is in part the memoir of a busy doctor, working impossibly long hours in the midst of a deadly pandemic and trying to keep his relationships afloat in the little free time he had. It’s also...

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Nursing Book ClubE.R. Nurses: True Stories from America’s Greatest Unsung Heroes by James Patterson and Matt EversmannNurses advocating for their patients and supporting each otherJames Patterson is one of America’s finest storytellers, best known for his many popular mysteries and thrillers. For his new book, E.R. Nurses, cowritten with Matt Eversmann, he has chosen nonfiction to tell the stories of 50 critical care nurses...
Nursing Book ClubInferno: A Memoir of Motherhood and Madness by Catherine ChoA troubling account of postpartum psychosisWho we are is not only a product of our DNA, as we all know. Our culture and the sum of our individual experiences also help to make us into the adults we become. We ignore this at our own peril, as author Catherine Cho reveals in her postpartum memoir,...
Nursing Book ClubLightning Flowers: My Journey to Uncover the Cost of Saving a Life by Katherine E. StandeferThe ethical toll of high-tech medicineLightning flowers are the tendrils of pink skin tissue left behind when an individual is struck by lightning. Once author Katherine Standefer heard this term, she wondered if she might have invisible internal burns due to the random 2,000-volt firings of...

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