Nurses captures the beating heart of nursing: the lives lost and saved, the hard tragedies and unbelievable miracles, and how every day nurses show up, give their all for patients, and then do it over and over and over again, all while holding onto their empathy and humanity. In their own bullet-straight words, these heroes describe the pain, the love, and the brutally hard work of trying to save people's lives. I could not stop reading it and when I was done I felt like I was changed forever.' - Sebastian Junger, author of Freedom, Tribe, War, Fire, and The Perfect Storm 'James Patterson's account of the twilight world between life and death that nurses inhabit is one of the most moving things I have ever read. Nurses.”- Sanjay Gupta, MD, neurosurgeon and chief medical correspondent, CNN Their stories are given the respect they deserve and are captured beautifully in E.R. They save our lives every day and represent the true life blood of any hospital. “As a trauma neurosurgeon, I have witnessed the compassion, the work ethic, and the selflessness of our nurses in countless situations. This book will make you laugh, make you cry, make you understand. –Sebastian Junger, author of Freedom and The Perfect StormĪround the clock, across the country, these highly skilled and compassionate men and women sacrifice and struggle for us and our families. 'James Patterson's account of the twilight world between life and death that nurses inhabit is one of the most moving things I have ever read.” –Sanjay Gupta, MD, neurosurgeon and chief medical correspondent, CNN “The compassion, the work ethic, and the selflessness of nurses … are given the respect they deserve and captured beautifully here.” The life-or-death intensity of working on the front lines, from America’s greatest unsung heroes. They save our lives every day, and we’ve never heard their stories.

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