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First, Do No Harm (Brier Hospital #1)
If you believe that television, movies or medical fiction, accurately portray what it's like to be an acute care physician or a critically ill patient in a hospital today, think again.Doctor Joseph Polk is an intelligent, charismatic, and a powerful member of the medical staff at Brier Hospital in the San Francisco Bay Area, and he's killing his patients. No gun, knife, po...more
Paperback, 312 pages
Published
April 6th 2007
by iUniverse
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I enjoy medical shows so I liked this book.
"The doctor is often more to be feared than the disease" French proverb.
Jack Byrnes is a specialist in intensive care who is new to Brier Hospital, a private community hospital. He has been specially trained to deal with the sickest patients. Unfortunately some of these patience have arrived in this unit because of physician negligence.
Dr. Joe Polk is popular with HMOs because of his ability to see the most patients in the shortest amount of time. His p...more
"The doctor is often more to be feared than the disease" French proverb.
Jack Byrnes is a specialist in intensive care who is new to Brier Hospital, a private community hospital. He has been specially trained to deal with the sickest patients. Unfortunately some of these patience have arrived in this unit because of physician negligence.
Dr. Joe Polk is popular with HMOs because of his ability to see the most patients in the shortest amount of time. His p...more
It's difficult to believe that a person could be guilty of the type of behavior Dr. Joe Polk is guilty of and yet remain aloof and without remorse. His patients suffer at his hands while he maintains nonchalance and an innocent attitude.
Though probably not a page-turner, First Do No Harm moves along at more than a casual pace as we follow the medical conditions of some seriously ill patients from their first symptoms and phone calls to Dr. Polk, to their hospital care and beyond. The reader ge...more
Though probably not a page-turner, First Do No Harm moves along at more than a casual pace as we follow the medical conditions of some seriously ill patients from their first symptoms and phone calls to Dr. Polk, to their hospital care and beyond. The reader ge...more
Jul 28, 2011
Donna Sheldon
rated it
5 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
Brave people
Recommended to Donna by:
My father and sister
Scared me to death. Maybe because I've encountered my share of Dr. Joe Polks in my long life. My father recommended this book to me. He was a former hospital administrator and had struggled for years,trying to oust bad doctors from his hospital. First, my sister read it. She's a nurse practitioner and kept nodding her head all the way through this. Then I read it, with a different perspective. This is a reminder, folks, that it's okay to fire your doctor, and many people don't, when they should....more
Kindle Edition:
Maybe it's just me but I think the book description is misleading. This book is supposed to be about a bad doctor by the name of Polk, but it took its sweet time getting around to introducing the reader to this guy. Instead we are taken on a detour with a narration of observations through some other guy's eyes. The story was so boring and badly written, that I don't know nor do I care who this other guy was.
I couldn't even finish the story it was so slow and boring.
A waste of ti...more
Maybe it's just me but I think the book description is misleading. This book is supposed to be about a bad doctor by the name of Polk, but it took its sweet time getting around to introducing the reader to this guy. Instead we are taken on a detour with a narration of observations through some other guy's eyes. The story was so boring and badly written, that I don't know nor do I care who this other guy was.
I couldn't even finish the story it was so slow and boring.
A waste of ti...more
A private hospital is plagued with the poor performance of one of its long Doctors. He makes poor or miss diagnosis, he berates nurses how try to bring problems with his patients, he is often unavailable when called about his patients conditions and is generally disliked. Dr. Jack Byrne is a fairly new member of the hospital staff and is acting as a general internist and consultant and he is the focus that the story returns too as it chronicles the history of various patients of the disliked Dr....more
Good book. Fast paced, medical story line. True to life characters.
How well do you know and trust your doctor? I enjoyed this book.
Terrible.
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Unfortunately, in my opinion this author has a deep-seated hatred for Christians as is evident in all of his books. After reading this book, I did not expect the same theme in another.
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Dr. Lawrence W. Gold, MD
The war in Vietnam interrupted my postgraduate medical training with a year in Colorado Springs and another as a Battalion Surgeon in Vietnam. I spent seven months in the Central Highlands with the 4th Infantry and five months in an evacuation hospital in Long Binh outside Saigon where I ran the emergency room. I returned intact in 1968 to complete my training in internal m...more
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The war in Vietnam interrupted my postgraduate medical training with a year in Colorado Springs and another as a Battalion Surgeon in Vietnam. I spent seven months in the Central Highlands with the 4th Infantry and five months in an evacuation hospital in Long Binh outside Saigon where I ran the emergency room. I returned intact in 1968 to complete my training in internal m...more
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