Emergency Doctor

GRIPPING.. --Booklist. . A crane falls on a hapless mother of two almost crushing her to death . . . A trauma victim of a helicopter crash desperately clings to life . . . A paralegal aide suffers a violent seizure from a cocaine overdose and gasps for breath . . . Welcome to the ER at Bellevue Hospital the frontline trenches of medicine where doctors fight around-the-clock to save lives at a frenetic pace of quick decisions and real life-and-death drama.. . Some three hundred people slam through these hospital doors every day. Gunshot cops battered kids drug addicts and suicides. Destitute drunks bag ladies AIDS sufferers and accident victims. It's a bizarre parade of humanity looking for help in the one place they know they can find it: the ER.. . Gut-wrenching heartwarming and instructive about the exigencies of this branch of medicine as practiced at this legendary institution.. --Publishers Weekly