


Nurses captures the beating heart of nursing: the lives lost and saved, the hard tragedies and unbelievable miracles, and how every day nurses show up, give their all for patients, and then do it over and over and over again, all while holding onto their empathy and humanity. This book will make you laugh, make you cry, make you understand. Sebastian Junger, author of Freedom and The Perfect Storm Around the clock, across the country, these highly skilled and compassionate men and women sacrifice and struggle for us and our families. Sanjay Gupta, MD, neurosurgeon and chief medical correspondent, CNN James Pattersons account of the twilight world between life and death that nurses inhabit is one of the most moving things I have ever read. are given the respect they deserve and captured beautifully here. The compassion, the work ethic, and the selflessness of nurses.

The life-or-death intensity of working on the front lines, from Americas greatest unsung heroes. He has won the National Magazine Award and the grand jury prize at the Sundance Film Festival.Book Synopsis They save our lives every day, and weve never heard their stories. Sebastian Junger is an award-winning journalist, author and filmmaker most noted for his book The Perfect Storm, a New York Times #1 bestseller. The mega bestselling author of thrillers, nonfiction, and romance novels, James Patterson has written 242 bestsellers, most recently a thriller with President Bill Clinton.Ĭoauthor with Patterson of Walk in My Combat Boots, Matt Eversmann was a member of the special forces unit whose daring survival story was immortalized in Black Hawk Down. They join us to honor the nurses who are at their best when we’re at our worst with moving behind-the-scenes stories that run the gamut from the tragic to the hilarious, in conversation with Sebastian Junger.

Nurses, James Patterson and Matt Eversmann celebrate the extraordinary women and men who were saving our lives long before Covid-19 turned our world upside down. We glimpsed their weary faces as the nation’s hospitals overflowed into tents, heard their tales of the heart-wrenching moments when they were left alone to comfort dying patients in quarantine and cheered them, from a distance, for the dangers and sacrifices they weathered.
