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Reviewed by Jean Brickell for Readers' Favorite
"Waking up Emily" is about the Anesthesia Department of a hospital and includes doctors, assistants, nurses, and the infamous coin counters that drive the anesthesiologist cranky when they try to cut cost, possibly causing the doctors to not have the supplies when they desperately need them. There are numerous case studies of the many varied operations and the people who are being operated on. The personalities of the crew at times cause loud laughter as they discus the people they work with. Some of the descriptions of the operations are dramatic and we get to see what really goes on in the operating room while we lie unconscious. The book is a fascinating read and very informative about a subject that few of us know much about.
This is full of actual cases of what goes on in the operating room as patients are eased into freedom from pain for operations and the machines that monitor our well-being as we lie unconscious. Also there is a look at what can go wrong sometimes even when everything should have been uneventful. The anesthesiologists always hope for an uneventful operation, one that flows through with no unexpected problems. That is what they have been trained for and they are always on the alert for the well-being of the patient. The case histories of patients that don't fare so well make very interesting reading. Very often these are people who have not treated their bodies with care and are not in the medical shape they should be to be operated on.
