The Shift: One Nurse, Twelve Hours, Four Patients' Lives

An engrossing human drama . . . The Shift is one nurse's story, but it contains elements of every nurse's experience."The Wall Street Journal Practicing nurse and New York Times columnist Theresa Brown invites us to experience not just a day in the life of a nurse but all the life that happens in just one day on a busy teaching hospitals cancer ward. In the span of twelve hours, lives can be lost, life-altering treatment decisions made, and dreams fulfilled or irrevocably stolen. Unfolding in real timeunder the watchful eyes of this dedicated professional and insightful chronicler of eventsThe Shift gives an unprecedented view into the individual struggles as well as the larger truths about medicine in this country. By shifts end, we have witnessed something profound about hope and humanity.