ECHO HERON

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INTENSIVE CARE and sequel, CONDITION CRITICAL

INTENSIVE CARE 

"A nurse's story unlike any other. Dedicated to healing and helping in the harshest environments of critical care, Echo Heron tells it like it is behind the closed doors of a busy urban hospital. SHOCKINGLY BELIEVABLE Heron chronicles the voyage of an idealistic nursing student through the gritty realities of practice. Heron writes with humor and a fine eye for detail...."—The Washington Post. 

"Details the full range of emotions...FAST-PACED, HUMOROUS, ENGROSSING..."      —Booklist

"Carries an emotional impact that will leave few readers unmoved...FASCINATING READING"— John Barkam's Review

 "Heron tells her story with a GRIPPING EMOTIONAL INTENSITY...with love and humor and vivid vignettes from her own life."— San Francisco Examiner

 "RIVETING....A first-person documentary that reads like a novel. A winning combination of medical anecdotes and personal observations....There's never a dull or preachy moment...COULD NOT BE BETTER READING."— Anniston Star 

CONDITION CRITICAL

 "Critical care nurse Heron will make readers laugh and cry with this graphic, often shocking look at life in the trenches of an unidentified high-tech hospital in San Francisco...Heron writes with EMOTIONAL INTENSITY and SASSY HUMOR as she critiques the hospital's corner-cutting bureaucracy."— Publishers Weekly

 "ENTERTAINING...gritty, behind-the-scenes details of hospital operations." — Booklist

"An UNCOMPROMISING and often visionary sequel to her bestseller, INTENSIVE CARE." — San Francisco Chronicle                                                                                                                                                                   

 "In the prologue of this book, Echo Heron, RN, states: 'Nurses are able to do what they do because they are rich in the gifts of healing, compassion and love.' She then goes on to illustrate that statement with 18 chapters of amusing and moving true stories of her career in critical care and the emergency room."— Chicago Tribune

 "Heron gives her readers a graphic, eyewitness description of modern medicine from the front lines..VIVID..HEARTBREAKING."—Tacoma News Tribune

 "Heron frequently inspires laughter, tears, and awe through her vivid descriptions of a 'normal' workday. With keen sensibilities and wry expressiveness, she fleshes out brief patient vignettes in ways that haunt one's memory....At a time when healthcare is changing, euthanasia is in the public consciousness, and fear of hospital experience continues, Echo Heron's Condition Critical opens the door on these and other topics with characteristic HONESTY, HUMOR and PASSION."—Women's  Magazine                                                         

 "A SHOCKING tell-all about hospital procedures as witnessed through the eyes of a nurse."—Library Journal

 "Heron gives a voice to her fellow nurses (a savvy, wisecracking, take-no-guff voice) and turns them into real people."—Seattle Post-Intelligencer