366 pages

Brendan Reilly

Barnes and nobles $13.50

One Doctor is an autobiography about M.D. Brendan Reilly who tells his story about a forgotten subject, I recommend reading if you’re into the medical profession, or into Grey’s Anatomy because it’s similar to the setting. The drama. Love stories. Surgery. Horrible interns, and  he does a great job bringing the reader into the story by giving background information about himself, the book, his patients, and how he went about his book. At the end of each chapter he leaves a cliff hanger. He will be with multiple patients in each chapter and goes through the patient's chart, why they are under professional medical care. Also what they need for treatment and what the nurses jobs are. Like, iv drips,morphine, drawing blood, heart monitors, and O2 status. For example, one part in the second chapter that I thought was suspenseful was when the nurses went into Mr. Atkins room and he was non responsive, one nurse was checking his O2 status, one was looking at his pupils they were not pinpoint, the nurses ended up holding narcan for a minute. (Which is a drug used for drug overdoses and for blood pressure support in septic shock.) As all the nurses are doing their job his wife was screaming at them and crying asking if he was dead.

It was suspenseful because I thought it brought you in and you could feel the rush through your veins, you could feel what it was like for both the doctors or nurses and Mrs. Atkins and the reasoning being is because  It changes the perspective and goes into how the nurses felt rather than what it was like for Mrs. Atkins, after the scare the chapter ended after they explained why he was non responsive and had woken up, but left us with questions, like what does Mrs. Atkins do? Does she break down?  Is she calm about it and accept what's happening?

It’s also similar to a diary, it has a quote of other people at the beginning of each chapter and a date, chapter 7 is called lost marbles with the quote of

“Ring them bells sweet Martha… for the chosen few who will judge the many when the game is through Ring them bells, for the time that flies For the children that cries When innocence dies.” - Bob Dylan, ring them Bells. It also starts with June 1995.