ER physician shows how empathy, creativity, and imagination are the cornerstones of clinical care - News-Medical.Net

To be an emergency room doctor is to be a professional listener to stories. Each patient presents a story; finding the heart of that story is the doctor's most critical task. More technology, more tests, and more data won't work if doctors get the story wrong.

"Tornado of Life is a tour de force. It features patient narratives, sketches of the ER, self-portraits of [Baruch's] development as a provider throughout [his] career, and [his] reflective and analy… [+25694 chars]

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