![]() ![]() Funny, witty and not depressing at all! Heike Geduld “Had a bad day? plug in your ipad and read this. The 52 most depressing songs you’ve ever heard by Tom Reynolds. Furthermore, the practice of emergency medicine and war seem to have a lot of features in common. From my own short stint in the NZ Army, I can assure this book is more realistic than it seems. This is also one of my own all time favourites. The medical references were also close to perfect. I will be forever grateful for the reminder that life is based upon the ridiculous, and the mostly meaningless. The book that was read, just at that epiphanal moment of angst-ridden teen-hood, which demonstrated that the world of adult-hood upon which one was just about to embark, was no better grounded in sense, than that of the one just about to be left. Interestingly, my own father didn’t seem to think there was anything odd about the fatherly advice given in this book… I read this book based on Rob’s recommendation and my zygomaticus majors were aching afterwards from the work out. His dad is a physician, I think, but this book isn’t medical. Book is basically quotes from the dad, and they are funny as hell. “About a guy who moves back in with his father. ‘Reading for kicks and giggles, sometimes amidst despair and darkness’ ![]() The theme for the first edition of Books in the FASTLANE is: I’ll be grouping them into loosely woven themes, but the recommendations can be anything - fiction, non-fiction, classic literature, self-help, poetry, comics, pop-up books… you name it. I’ve asked them all which books they’d recommend emergency medicine and critical care should or must read - for whatever reason. It seems that this posse of medical uber geeks likes to read stuff other than journal articles. This is the first of an occasional series of posts where I’ll pull together a bunch of book recommendations from our beloved R&R crew. ![]()
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