{"product_id":"where-it-hurts-dispatches-from-the-emotional-frontlines-of-medicine","title":"Where It Hurts: Dispatches from the Emotional Frontlines of Medicine","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003cem\u003eWhere It Hurts\u003c\/em\u003e invites us to peer into the space between health and illness, life and death, through the voices of the people who work on medicine's frontlines: doctors, nurses, EMTs, therapists, and more. In raw and revealing essays, stories, and poems, they share what it's like to deal with difficult patients, life-changing diagnoses, private doubts, painful failures, and the victories that keep them going.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy turns conversational, spare, urgent, poetic, plain-spoken, heart-rending, and heart-mending, each piece offers a glimpse into the extraordinary daily realities of those charged with taking care of us at our most vulnerable.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eA doctor shares the do-or-die pep talk she gives herself while performing a life-saving procedure.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eA nurse wrestles with caring for a woman accused of murder.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eA neurologist recalls how learning the art of pole dancing helped her through residency.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eA GI fellow serves us an unorthodox \"cure\" for an ER regular with a dangerous love for fajitas.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eA surgeon-poet imagines inviting Death over for tea.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnger, shame, panic, loneliness, love, hate, wonder, joy: They're all part of a day's work. As the authors of each piece unpack the highs and lows of their vocation, they teach us what it means to empathize deeply, to live fully, and to be human.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv style=\"display:none\"\u003eISBN-13: 9798893031041\u003cbr\u003eAuthor: Bulseco, Donna, Charon, Rita\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Experiment\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Experiment","offers":[{"title":"Paperback (Mar 2026)","offer_id":46081794998469,"sku":"9798893031041","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0708\/6414\/2533\/files\/9798893031041.jpg?v=1776049517","url":"https:\/\/www.inveni.store\/products\/where-it-hurts-dispatches-from-the-emotional-frontlines-of-medicine","provider":"Inveni","version":"1.0","type":"link"}