In every hospital emergency department there is a room reserved for trauma. It is a place where life and death meet. A place where some families celebrate the most improbable of victories while others…
"Welcome to the fast-paced, high-stress, and often hilarious world of Kelly Grayson as he shares his raw and uncensored experiences in 'En Route', a non-stop ride on his career as a paramedic" -- insi…
“She screams and whips her head back, spraying sweat from her hair on the back wall, as I gently pull the child’s body to the side and the head comes free. The mother lets out a heavy sigh and cries g…
Standing in the trauma room of an emergency department is like standing at ground zero of a nuclear reaction, only it’s not radiation that is released—but stories. Stories that are told and retold, so…
John's medical memoir was born from chaotic, disjointed, funny and frightening late-night letters to friends over email (any recipients of which all those years ago will likely walk away now). Those m…
In the stories of "Night Shift," Dr. Mark Plaster takes readers beyond the ambulance bay doors into the stranger-than-fiction world of the Emergency Department. By turns heart-warming and gut-wrenchin…
In More Letters From The Pit, a sequel to the popular Letters From The Pit, I share how, over the course of my career, I considered the roles that fate, destiny, and karma seem to play in our lives. M…
CODE 4: True stories from a 37-year police veteran
You step into a doorway to see a man levelling a shotgun at your chestYou hold a dying child in your armsYou crawl into a mangled car to help someone trapped and bleedingThese are a small sampling of …
An inside look at one of the nation's most famous public hospitals, Cook County, as seen through the eyes of its longtime Director of Intensive Care, Dr. Cory Franklin.
