Not all books need to be 5 stars to be good. Paul Austin's quick, matter-of-fact, and bravely honest memoir is not a work of art, and it's won't be added to any Must Read Before You Die lists. It isn't written particularly well, and some themes and metaphors are a bit clumsy. Still, that doesn't ...
I know that what I see in ERs on television isn't going to be an accurate portrayal of what goes on in them, so this book sounded interesting. And it was. Paul Austin does a great job not only of telling the true stories--some funny, some heartwrenching, some almost unbelievable--of what happen...