Received as a gift. This is an eight week devotional reading broken into daily readings with questions to ponder. Written with the hunter in mind. DisReceived as a gift. This is an eight week devotional reading broken into daily readings with questions to ponder. Written with the hunter in mind. Discusses themes of generosity, planning, perseverance. ...more
It wasn't really what I expected. Bryson is an excellent writer and this book did serve to bring out the nostalgia factor for older readers.It wasn't really what I expected. Bryson is an excellent writer and this book did serve to bring out the nostalgia factor for older readers....more
I just wasn't impressed. I am sure that Dr. Barton's work and life were fascinating, he just wasn't good at putting it down on paper. I just wasn't impressed. I am sure that Dr. Barton's work and life were fascinating, he just wasn't good at putting it down on paper. ...more
I like the concept of this book and the way it was written. It was a beginners guide to utilizing the outdoors. Let me stress...it is a beginners guidI like the concept of this book and the way it was written. It was a beginners guide to utilizing the outdoors. Let me stress...it is a beginners guide. Don't expect it to be a full tutorial and it was never meant to be a cookbook (though it does contain recipes).
Mr Shaw is obviously a costal guy. He provides a lot of information of items on the coasts. I live in the midwest so a lot of this information does not apply to me and I would like to see more about freshwater fishing and plants applicable to this region. I doubt I will be foraging any seaweed any time soon.
Overall, a pleasant and easy read that provides a lot of information for the curious....more
An easy read geared toward both the lay person and the medical professional. I have been a physician for 25 years but this group of stories taught me An easy read geared toward both the lay person and the medical professional. I have been a physician for 25 years but this group of stories taught me a lot about the history of medicine and how some diseases and procedures were named....more
I recently finished reading “This is going to Hurt” by Adam Kay. This book is a collection of diary entries and anecdotes written by a former British I recently finished reading “This is going to Hurt” by Adam Kay. This book is a collection of diary entries and anecdotes written by a former British NHS OB/GYN. It documents his medical career from the time he started post medical school training up until the time that he left medicine for good. It is a chronical involving humor, despair, anguish, enlightenment and self-realization.
A career in the healthcare industry can be vastly rewarding yet at the same moment be personally tragic. It is not for everyone as Mr. Kay so eloquently points out. Medicine takes a special calling, a combination of intelligence, personality, drive, desire, determination, resolve and compassion. It is very difficult to come up with that combination in an individual.
Mr. Kay was a victim of the system, a system that is broken on many levels. He was driven out of medicine by long hours, poor pay, overwhelming bureaucracy and personal tragedy. He admits that he went into medicine for the wrong reasons, essentially a sense that he needed to follow in predecessors footsteps.
I wanted to like this book. I really did. I did like it but not to the extent that I should have. The anecdotes hit me on a personal level. I have lived them. If not the stories in their exact form, at least in a generalization of some aspect. I can look through his words and see the patients he is describing. He talks about professional triumphs and professional disasters. These include the saving of a life or the loss of a child. I have had both happen to me. He discusses removal of strange foreign bodies from strange orifices, (been there). He discusses the persistent fight with the bureaucracy of administration. I quit insurance driven medicine for the same reasons. The point where we split opinion is the contrast of the American and British systems and his hypocrisy in describing the British system of healthcare.
He looks in some disdain on the American system. While he acknowledges the advanced state of healthcare in the United States but he criticizes the privatization of the system. He touts the “superior” distribution of healthcare in Great Britain as a public entity, but also constantly assails the big brother like intrusion of government in the minutia of delivery of care. Some of his criticisms include: Poorly funded and understaffed hospitals, extremely long hours for NHS doctors resulting in broken homes and marriages, and the poor state of pay of NHS doctors compared to his friends not in medical service.
Mr. Kay is a brilliant writer and comedian. He is able to convey his emotions exquisitely through the written word. I have no doubt that he was a special clinician as well. That interpretation is made by the way he demonstrates his compassion in writing. I think it would be an honor to know him personally. Medicine lost a little of it’s heart and soul the moment he walked out of the field. ...more
I always enjoy Mr. Maberry's work. This is no exception though it doesn't quite live up to his other stuff. I have yet to see the film version of thisI always enjoy Mr. Maberry's work. This is no exception though it doesn't quite live up to his other stuff. I have yet to see the film version of this piece but from what I can tell by the previews it matches well. Scary, colorful, dramatic...it will keep you reading well into the night....more
Hard to really keep up with. Convoluted story with multiple simultaneous lines. Sandfords books are always a joy to read and well thought out. This onHard to really keep up with. Convoluted story with multiple simultaneous lines. Sandfords books are always a joy to read and well thought out. This one made my mind twist a little. Anytime you have a psychotic serial killer, two different converging murder paths and a deranged drug dealer then you are going to get a little confused!...more
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