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The psychiatric emergency room, a fast-paced combat zone with pressure to match, thrusts its medical providers into the outland of human experience where they must respond rapidly and decisively in spite of uncertainty and, very often, danger. In this lively first-person narrative, Paul R. Linde takes readers behind the scenes at an urban psychiatric emergency room, with all its chaos and pathos, where we witness mental health professionals doing their best to alleviate suffering and repair shattered lives. As he and his colleagues encounter patients who are hallucinating, drunk, catatonic, aggressive, suicidal, high on drugs, paranoid, and physically sick, Linde examines the many ethical, legal, moral, and medical issues that confront today's psychiatric providers. He describes a profession under siege from the outside-health insurance companies, the pharmaceutical industry, government regulators, and even \"patients' rights\" advocates-and from the inside-biomedical and academic psychiatrists who have forgotten to care for the patient and have instead become checklist-marking pill-peddlers. While lifting the veil on a crucial area of psychiatry that is as real as it gets,Danger to Selfalso injects a healthy dose of compassion into the practice of medicine and psychiatry.

Reminiscent of Chekhov's stories, The Blood of Strangers is a visceral portrayal of a physician's encounters with the highly charged world of an emergency room. In this collection of spare and elegant stories, Dr. Frank Huyler reveals a side of medicine where small moments—the intricacy of suturing a facial wound, the bath a patient receives from her husband and daughter—interweave with the lives and deaths of the desperately sick and injured. The author presents an array of fascinating characters, both patients and doctors—a neurosurgeon who practices witchcraft, a trauma surgeon who unexpectedly commits suicide, a wounded murderer, a man chased across the New Mexico desert by a heat-seeking missile. At times surreal, at times lyrical, at times brutal and terrifying, The Blood of Strangers is a literary work that emerges from one of the most dramatic specialties of modern medicine. This deeply affecting first book has been described by one early reader as \"the best doctor collection I have seen since William Carlos Williams's The Doctor Stories.\"

This handbook on the management of critically ill neurologic patients in the Emergency Department focuses is on disorders that have the potential for rapid deterioration. This updated second edition has eight new chapters, seven of which appear in an entirely new first section on the evaluation of presenting symptoms indicating urgency.

While brain injury can be a potentially devastating childhood medical condition this book explores the developing field of neuropsychology to suggest it is not inevitable. It draws together contributions from leading international clinicians and researchers to provide an authoritative guide to help children with brain injury using neuropsychology.

The notion of \"transporting literacy\" across spheres or cultures is a useful way to imagine the transition many of today's adult students make as writers from the literate sphere of the workplace to that of the school--a transition the author refers to in this article as the \"reverse commute.\" By the time such students reach (or rereach) the college classroom, many have already had their literate abilities enlisted by myriad sponsors outside of school and, as a result, have developed a varied range of discursive knowledge and skill. But what happens when these students try to \"adapt and amalgamate practices learned in one sphere to meet the new demands of another sphere\"? Specifically, what happens to and with professional or workplace discursive knowledge when adult students transition from workplace to classroom--from writing-for-the-boss to writing-for-the-teacher? In this article, the author investigates these questions within the context of the larger question posed by Patricia Connors and by Beverly Moss and Keith Walters--about how teaching writing to adult students is different from working with more traditional-age students. The author reports on his research with adult students making the reverse commute at Northeast State College (NSC), a public, bachelor's-granting college that focuses on adult education and online learning. In particular, the author shares findings from a case study he conducted with Tony, a thirty-nine-year-old emergency medical technician (EMT) and emergency medical services (EMS) educator who enrolled at NSC to pursue a bachelor's degree in applied technology. His research with Tony and the six other adults who participated in the NSC study leads him to suggest that the discursive moves such students make as they attempt to \"invent [or re-invent] the university\" are often distinctive and may be, as a result of years spent writing on the job, different from those made by traditional-age undergraduates. (Contains 1 note.)