Intensive Care: The Story of a Nurse

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER, INTENSIVE CARE: The Story of a Nurse, (revised 2024) is the gripping account of critical care nurse, Echo Heron.  From training to practice in emergency and coronary care units, Heron's riveting first-person account carries an emotional impact that will leave few readers unmoved. A winning mixture of emotion, humor, and medical life and death dramas, INTENSIVE CARE is a fast-paced and fascinating must-read."Details the full range of emotions...
FAST-PACED, HUMOROUS, ENGROSSING."  - Booklist"DRAMATIC ... RINGS TRUE... [A] GRIPPING ACCOUNT."  - Publisher's Weekly"Compelling reading." - New York Daily News"Heron tells her story with a gripping, emotional intensity... With love and humor and vivid vignettes from her own life." - San Francisco Examiner"A HEARTFELT, GAMELY HUMOROUS NARRATIVE" - The Boston Phoenix"RIVETING ... A first-person documentary that reads like a novel ...
A winning combination of medical anecdotes and personal observations... There's never a dull or preachy moment. INTENSIVE CARE COULD NOT BE BETTER READING." - Anniston Star