The Unseen Corner

The Unseen Corner – Life Stories in the Emergency Room

Author：Chen Wei-Kung
Publisher：Common Health Magazine
Published Date：2009.09

【Synopsis】

• Two women said, "I'm patient's wife", rushing to sign the surgery consent form. In the end who is?
• A gunshot wound patient came and left quietly, is he an undercover policeman, or a gang member?
• Drug users usually do not have any visitor, but the two children hold this man's hands tightly...
• This is a familiar face but had no vital signs. I met the most challenging "opponent" for emergency physicians; my only option is to give it a shot!
• The old couple begged again and again, so I went to the morgue to see the lady who died two hours ago. Will there be a miracle?
• "I will be strong to live to the last minute!" It seemed that he was waiting for me to say goodbye. I clenched his cold hands, and his words echoed in my mind.
• She took her daughter to our emergency room, but told the doctor that her daughter was malingering. I don't understand what happened to this mother?
• A pregnant woman originally scheduled to deliver her baby tomorrow, but in a coma today. How did the emergency physician make a decision within a few seconds relevant to two lives?
• "Don't you dare to leave!" A patient carried a gun to the emergency room to revenge. Who can understand the pressure of the medical staff?

The ER witnesses the incredible trials and tribulations of life; these real life stories are more exciting than fictions and dramas.

If the outpatient department could be characterized as the order established by middle class, the emergency room should be featured as anarchy. Every day in ER is like a live broadcast of life and death, which contains one climax after another. This book includes more than 50 true stories, which record the compact and thrilling medical procedures, which could hardly be described by words. It brings the readers to the medical site where they can observe the uncertainty of life and the hard work of medical crew. Various kinds of patients and families act out the bright and dark sides of human nature while they get entangled with intricate family and social problems. Readers would be so thrilled by the plots that they would not want to stop reading. They would never be able to figure out the ending of every story until they finish it.

Life is full of joys and sorrows, partings and reunions; life is unpredictable. Only when you read to the last page of the book, you would eventually realize that you are reading the stories of your own, rather than those of someone else.