Why read Tornado of Life?

Book cover of Tornado of Life: A Doctor's Journey through Constraints and Creativity in the ER

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Stories from the ER: a doctor shows how empathy, creativity, and imagination are the cornerstones of clinical care.

To be an emergency room doctor is to be a professional listener to stories. Each patient presents a story; finding the heart of that story is the doctor’s most critical task. More…

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1 author picked Tornado of Life as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Mikkael A. Sekeres

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If you ever need to go to the emergency room, you would want Jay Baruch to be your doctor.

In Tornado of Life, Jay explores medicine as an exercise in storytelling, and across a series of essays, tries to find truth in the stories his patients tell him.

With each patient we encounter, we struggle along with Jay to solve the moral quandaries of medical practice in the 21st century, and share in the heartache faced by the families surviving medical catastrophes.

From Mikkael's list on the good, bad, beautiful, and ugly in medicine.