Blue Water, White Water

by Robert C. Samuels

Overview

A harrowing true story of a man�s struggle to survive in one of America�s top hospitals! Without self-pity, former New York City newspaperman and prize-winning magazine editor, Robert C. Samuels tells his own harrowing story of medical survival. He's filled it with tears, humor, love and triumph. "Audacious, brilliantly written, Blue Water, White Water, is a rare, first-person look at a world that is often closed to the average person. It is well worth your time," raves an early critic. "A riveting, vivid story!" Jan Dye Gussow, author of Growing Older: A Chronicle of Death, Life, and Vegetables. "Producers will pounce. This book IS a movie!" Carolyn Fox, Entertainment News Calendar. "Should be required reading for all medical and nursing students! A must read!" Nursing Professor Barbara Riso, R.N. "Wow! Written with an amazing ability to portray a true, horrific story that keeps readers glued to the page and laughing at the same time," Peggy Whalen, R.N. "A powerful description of genuine helplessness," Tyler Lucas, M.D.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940013594395
Publisher:	Up the Creek Publishing
Publication date:	11/12/2011
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	741 KB

About the Author

Robert C. Samuels has had a long and storied career as a journalist. He has written for Newsday, Playbill, the Los Angeles Times, the Boson Globe, the Chicago Tribune, and the Paris Herald Tribune. He has interviewed figures as diverse as President Truman, Martin Luther King, Jr., and NPR�s John Hockenberry. He currently is the travel
editor for New Mobility, a national magazine for wheelchair users

Editorial Reviews

"...it stands head and shoulders above the rest ... brisk, unsentimental, sardonic and altogether deadly."

The New York Times - Abigail Zuber. M.D.

"Samuels manages to make a book about laying still for months on end a page-turner. It�s a feat, in no small part, credited to the myriad of ridiculous characters he must entrust his life to on a daily basis. If he seems critical, he is. And rightfully so. Most of the nurses and doctors he has the poor luck of crossing paths with are equal opportunity offenders. The things they say and do in front of a man who they forget is there are so shocking, it seems unreal."

Nurse.com - Meaghan O'Keeffe

His sardonic viewpoint, nonstop peril and captivating characterizations of the nurses, doctors and technicians who hold his life in their hands keep the reader on edge. There is no shortage of antagonistic characters to drive the action, beginning with �Bitch Doria,� the first of many nurses whose incompetence, inattentiveness, manipulative nature, lack of compassion or downright meanness emerge by degrees. But they all have their good points, too, their occasional kindnesses and usefulness, so

New Mobility magazine - Tim Gilmer