Step 1 · Editorial composite · Burnout
The Bridge to Nowhere
Twenty-seven patients. One doctor. Sixteen hours. And the moment she realized that the myth of the invincible physician was killing her — and her patients.

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Step 1 · Editorial composite · Burnout
Twenty-seven patients. One doctor. Sixteen hours. And the moment she realized that the myth of the invincible physician was killing her — and her patients.
Step 2 · Editorial composite · Faith And Medicine
Before every surgery, he stood outside the operating room and spoke three words. He never told anyone — not his colleagues, not his residents, not even his wife. But he never performed a surgery without doing it.
Step 3 · Editorial composite · Unexplained Phenomena
I've seen it more than thirty times in my twenty-year career. A light — not electrical, not reflected, not explainable — that fills the room for just a few seconds after a patient dies. Every nurse on our unit has seen it. Nobody talks about it.
Step 4 · Editorial composite · Rural Medicine
He watched his community being destroyed by addiction. He couldn't stop the prescriptions — he was just a pharmacist. But he could do something the DEA and the CDC couldn't: he could talk to people.
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The web stories above are editorial composites. The book is the place to read Dr. Scott J. Kolbaba's selected interview-based accounts. Purchase-page ratings and availability can change.
View the book on AmazonLocation key: Springs, Izola · Parent city: Izola · Region label: Coast & Karst · Country: Slovenia

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Public descriptions say the book draws on more than 200 physician interviews and presents 26 selected accounts involving end-of-life experiences, unexpected recoveries, faith, and other events the narrators found difficult to explain.
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