E.R. Nurses: Walk My Rounds with Me (2024)

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Walk in My Combat Boots comes the powerful true account America’s greatest unsung heroes.

"James Patterson's account of the twilight world between life and death that nurses inhabit is oneofthe most moving things I have ever read.”
–Sebastian Junger, author ofFreedomandThe Perfect Storm

Around the clock, across the country, these highly skilled and compassionate men and women sacrifice and struggle for us and our families.

You have never heard their true stories. Not like this. From big-city and small-town hospitals. From behind the scenes. From the heart.

This book will make you laugh, make you cry, make you understand.

When we’re at our worst, E.R. nurses are at their best.

• “As a trauma neurosurgeon, I have witnessedthe compassion, the work ethic, and the selflessness of our nursesin countless situations. Theysave our lives every dayand represent thetrue life blood of any hospital. Their stories are given therespect they deserveand arecaptured beautifullyinE.R. Nurses.”

  Sanjay Gupta, MD, neurosurgeon and chief medical correspondent, CNN

• "James Patterson's account of the twilight world between life and death that nurses inhabit is oneofthe most moving things I have ever read. In their own bullet-straight words,these heroes describe the pain, the love,and the brutally hard work of trying to save people's lives.I could not stop reading it and when I was done I felt like I was changed forever."

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  Sebastian Junger, author of Freedom, Tribe, War, Fire, and The Perfect Storm

• “E.R. Nursescaptures 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. Readers will be stunned and moved by this no-holds-barred portrait of nurses' essential and deeply meaningful work.”

  Theresa Brown, PhD, RN, author of the New York Times bestseller The Shift: One Nurse, Twelve Hours, Four Patients' Lives

• “These readable bite-sized snippets represent a significant caregiver demographic of women and men who exhibit the labor-intensive focus, compassion, dedication, and passion necessary to be an emergency nurse. From the heartfelt to the tragic, this bookdisplays the nursing profession in all its unsung glory.A timely tribute to the modern-day heroes of medicine, conveyed in their own words.”

  Kirkus

• “Thriller legend James Patterson has compiled hundreds of interviews for his poignant and timely nonfiction recounting of the dramatic, dangerous, and professional lives of America’s nurses.”

  Parade

• "James Patterson and Matt Eversmann have captured the essence and drama of what it takes to be a nurse. Sometimes heartbreaking and sometimes frightening, give this book to someone who is thinking of being a nurse or is one already."

  The Florida-Times Union