ISBN10: 1550651218, ISBN13: 9781550651218, [publisher: Vehicule Press, Montreal, QC] Softcover Paperback. For nine years Andrew Steinmetz worked as a ward clerk in the Intensive Care Unit and Emergency Department of a major hospital. Wardlife is a series of riveting prose vignettes--intensely observed moments drawn from diaries kept during the nine years the author spent as a ward clerk. With character sketches, dialogues, and brief meditations on subjects ranging from the language of poetry to the language of medicine, Wardlife records the hospital experience--the pathos and pain, the humour and horror--of life on the wards. Andrew Steinmetz conveys a profound and deeply sympathetic understanding of this unique environment that few other books have managed to do. Steinmetz is an astute observer who doesn't miss much: the feel of instruments, the tone of a "locating girl's" voice calling code blue, the oddly triumphant grieving of a family watching and singing at a dying father's bedside, and the complications of various hospital subcultures. He knows how medicine can drain our humanity, but he eloquently seeks a balance between medicalizing the personal and personalizing the medical. For nine years Andrew Steinmetz worked as a ward clerk in the Intensive Care Unit and Emergency Department of a major hospital. Wardlife is a series of riveting prose vignettes—intensely observed moments drawn from diaries kept during the nine years ...
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Vehicule Press, Date: 1999-01-01. Paperback. Used:Good. 1999. Vehicule Press ISBN 1550651218 9781550651218 [US]

Véhicule Press, Date: 2000. First Edition. paperback. Very Good. 6x0x9. Signed by Author. flat signed by the author on the title page, this copy has a solid binding with clean unmarked pages.light edge wear. 2000. Véhicule Press ISBN 1550651218 9781550651218 [CA]

Véhicule Press 2000 First Edition paperback Very Good Size: 6x0x9; flat signed by the author on the title page, this copy has a solid binding with clean unmarked pages. light edge wear.

Vehicule Press 1999 Softcover Good Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

ISBN10: 1550651218, ISBN13: 9781550651218, [publisher: Véhicule Press] Softcover Good condition. This is the average used book, that has all pages or leaves present, but may include writing. Book may be ex-library with stamps and stickers.
[Tucson, AZ, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1999]

ISBN10: 1550651218, ISBN13: 9781550651218, [publisher: V?hicule Press] Softcover First Edition flat signed by the author on the title page, this copy has a solid binding with clean unmarked pages.light edge wear.
[Paris, ON, Canada] [Publication Year: 2000]

ISBN10: 1550651218, ISBN13: 9781550651218, [publisher: Vehicule Press] Softcover Num Pages: 188 pages. BIC Classification: BGT; MBD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 136 x 203 x 14. Weight in Grams: 250. . 1999. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.
[Olney, MD, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1999]

ISBN10: 1550651218, ISBN13: 9781550651218, [publisher: Vehicule Press] Softcover Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.9
[AUSTELL, GA, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1999]