One story called Death by Chocolate by Hamish Maclaren is about a teen-aged girl came in to the emergency room who claimed to have swallowed a bottle of Tylenol. The story that she and her friends had given him was that they had gone to an all chocolate restaurant to celebrate the girl's breaking up with her boyfriend. After they were done eating she went to the bathroom and apparently swallowed a bottle of Tylenol. The author decided to pump her stomach out because that much Tylenol for her size is lethal. It turned out that she had no Tylenol in her system she was bulimic.

Stories like Debriding the Wounds by Glenn Floress. This one in particular is about child abuse. It describes an eleven month old infant who was put in a very hot bathtub which got him very badly burned.

"The infant is crying. He screams. A series of forceful sobs follows until he has no more breath. Just when it seems he has stopped breathing, he takes a long, deep breath and then begins the screaming and sobbing again. He lies on his back, holding his legs in the air, trying to somehow lessen the pain. The entire lower half of his body has been scalded. Flecks of burnt skin and smears of yellow blister fluid stain the pristine whiteness of the examination table"(P. 12).

His mother, who had a black eye, was looking away from the author. From looking at the burns, he knew right away that the infant was abused, and he was quite certain that the mother was protecting the abuser. She claims it was an accident and then the father, the father claims it was her.

If you are an "ER" or "Chicago Hope" fan, a future doctor, or you just want a good interesting book, this is the book for you. It's a book you can read when you have the time, you could put it down for a month and still read where you left off; it's a book of may different moods all mixed into one great book.