Confessions of Emergency Room Doctors

by Rocky Lang and Erick Montero

Book Overview

Rocky Lang and Dr Erick Montero offer up more than 200 firsthand accounts of emergency room dramas, along with bizarre and insightful medical facts and statistics, all inside 'Confessions of Emergency... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0740768638
• ISBN13: 9780740768637
• Release Date: September 2007
• Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
• Length: 196 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.1" x 7.0"

Customer Reviews

Fun and Games in the ER!

Humor is where you find it. In the case of CONFESSIONS OF EMERGENCY ROOM DOCTORS, authors Rocky Lang and Erick Montero found it in emergency rooms and hospitals across the globe. Lang and Montero's book is a collection of short stories featuring medical goofs, gaffes, weird experiences and even weirder patients. Perfectly priced at $9.95, it will leave you alternately laughing, chuckling or shaking your head in amazement. CONFESSIONS OF EMERGENCY ROOM DOCTORS includes sections on strange patients/occurrences in the ER, medical slang, poorly written medical records, medical acronyms, strange doctor names, medical news from around the world and medical facts. A sampler of what awaits the reader: ER PATIENTS: A 46-year old man comes into the ER with a burned ear and cheek. He had been watching the Stanley Cup while his wife was doing the ironing close to the phone. Yup, you got it! Phone rings, guy reaches over, grabs the iron and... MEDICAL RECORDS: "She stated that she had been constipated for most of her life until she got a divorce." STRANGE DOCTOR NAMES: Dr. Dick Dick. MEDICAL SLANG: "Circling the Drain" (i.e expected to die soon). While CONFESSIONS OF EMERGENCY ROOM DOCTORS isn't a mandatory purchase, it is fun, informative, sometimes unbelievable and occasionally disgusting. I thought it was a hoot. Recommended.

Worth reading!

This book was definitely worth reading if you are into ER stories. I work in the Er and enjoyed it very much.

Funniest book EVER!!!!

Every story in this book is so funny and interesting that I found myself reading it aloud to whomever was near. "You have to hear this!" I said over and over again. If laughter is the best medicine, read this and live to 100 . . . great gift for anyone on your list, but buy extra copies because everyone who reads it will want one of their own.

Entertaining

Amusing, occasionally hilarious and bizarre, this book is an engaging peek at what REALLY goes on behind-the-scenes. Very entertaining.

STRANGER THAN FICTION FUNNY

This book is really entertaining and laugh out loud funny. People are so strange and probably never stranger then when they are in the E.R. It's a good airplane book or vacation book. With the holidays coming up this is a great book to give as a gift.