While the idea for the book was conceived pre-COVID-19, work on it was done amid the pandemic and as hospitals have faced potential nursing shortages nationwide. “The impact it had on that family’s life was incalculable, and the humanity of that.” “Just trying to make his last moments on this Earth somewhat pleasant,” he said. “Katie sneaks him up through the back door and lets this man’s dog sleep in his bed,” said Eversmann.

After the man’s wife said all her husband would want with him was his dog, Quick instructed her to run home and bring back the pet. They see it all,” said Patterson.Įversmann recounted an interview with a Virginia nurse, Katie Quick, who comforted an older man’s family as he lay dying in the intensive care unit. Now I do know: You go to emergency rooms. “If Matt and I wanted to write a book about the underbelly of this country, like what’s really going on and what’s the worst of the worst, I wouldn’t know where to start before this book. One nurse recalls the joy of learning a 2-year-old unexpectedly recovered from a pit bull attack, while another says she’s been “called the B-word and the C-word” and has experienced “having shit thrown at me, people punching me and people bringing in guns.” Some of those stories include inspiring, sometimes-heart-breaking, bizarre - like the time a dead bird was found in a patient’s jacket - and infuriating true-life moments. “We wanted this to be a book that you would just keep reading the damn thing,” Patterson said, “because the stories are just so fascinating.” The pair of authors, Patterson said, didn’t want the project to be the kind of book someone would “keep in the bathroom and every 10 you read another” few pages. “If you read this book, you will understand nurses and hospitals in a way you didn’t before,” Patterson told ITK in a Tuesday interview. 11, features a compilation of interviews with hospital workers from across the country - everywhere from Wisconsin to Hawaii - telling their experiences in their own words. Nurses: True Stories from America’s Greatest Unsung Heroes.” The nonfiction tome with Matt Eversmann, poised to be released Oct. “It’s such a powerful book,” the prolific author says of “E.R. He’s thrilled readers with fictional tales of murder and mayhem, but James Patterson says he hopes his latest book helps “wake people up” by telling the gripping stories of real-life emergency room nurses.

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