Julia's Mother: Life Lessons in the Pediatric Er

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Summary: Emergency Room Read
Review: A Memoir titled "Julia's Mother" by William Bonadio; M.D. is a very intellectual and astonishing book about the emergency room and becoming a doctor. Although some words I could not understand, this book was really a page-turner. This paperback was the true-life lessons he learned while working in an emergency room. At the begging of this book the doctor comes into contact with young Julia, who was hit by a car in her way to school. Julia was crossing the street in front of her school when a man was driving by and hit her, ripping her little limbs around. Unfortunately she did not make it. After this section in the book he goes on telling about all the different kinds of classes he had to go through for him to become a doctor.
One thing I liked about this book was the word choice. The words just came together and painted a vivid picture in my head and made feel as though I was there. If not a reader read this book, it is worth it. In the begging, center the words all seem to help me get a better understanding about the book and what's going on. I must admit a lot of the words were hard to understand, but if you read with a dictionary next to you, you are good to go.
The only thing I did not like about this book was how the author skipped around. First he would talk about one thing then in the next chapter he would jump to something else. When you first start to read to think it is about a girl's mother, then immediately into the next chapter you learn about something else. It was easy to follow along but occasionally I was lost in the chapters and the words. The book was like that of a roller coaster almost every chapter was different from the next.

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Summary: Beyond the power of science
Review: I have just finished reading this wonderful book. It is a story of a doctor discovering what lies beyond the science of medicine - so personal and so powerful - something one calls upon when science fails to heal. It is something that every doctor has to face and to acknowledge sometime during his or her career to be able to keep on going.
It is a combination of life experiences and reflection over the meaning of each of them. It is a personal journey that every doctor has to encounter to understanding what it takes to become not just M.D. but a healer.
If you have a friend who is considering making medicine a life long career, please give him or her this book to read. It will give them a good idea of what they are getting themselves into but, most importantly, it will help them to see that there is something else hidden beyond the power of science and once they discover what it is, they will be able to survive any hardship of this profession.