Sherry Jones Mayo has written a very informative and humorous book on the everyday experiences of the staff of the emergency services if the paramedics, technicians paramedics, doctors or nurses. After twenty years in the field, May reveals multiple aspects of the task of caring for people who need emergency care, tragic loss experience, difficult and patients often humorous, and cope with fatigue, breakpoints emotional and personal issues.

Most books are written about the trauma of victims and their caregivers, so caregivers (counselors, emergency response, including family members) can help the victims. Despite the television dramas pays homage to the courage of workers in emergency services, especially in the ER-these programs tend to the treatment of so heroic and dramatic situations instead of showing the real effects real emotional and physical price of these experiences have on workers. Mayo offers multiple aspects of a personal emergency response services to trauma, most of which would become his daily work, but the deaths of children, cases of child abuse, or situations that resonate with their own tragic personal experiences may require immediate counseling and crisis intervention to protect workers. Burnout is common, but so is the deep sense of reward when the greatest effort to pay.

This book is rich in a variety of experiences that are making emergency care on a plane to help overweight people from their homes, and an employee of the emergency services experiencing accident and then see things from the patient's side as her co-workers care for her. May shares her own experiences in all, but also shares the stories of fellow workers, his daughter, who was inspired to follow in the footsteps of her mother, and numerous other first-person accounts of help in an emergency.

While "Confessions of a Junkie trauma" has numerous short stories in motion, what I value most is the humor. The real comedy sketches made me understand better how the staff of the emergency services respond to the most difficult situations, the boredom faced with, and the need for humor as a coping mechanism. Workers also do not always get the recognition and respect they deserve. They become irritated because when treated as servants, when threatened with lawsuits, or when the lazy to try to take advantage of them, even refusing to sit by themselves because a worker may pick them up. While May's experiences occurring in greater Detroit metropolitan area, and greater economic and socially challenged population exists there, I imagine the emergency service workers need to deal with rude and inconsiderate patients constantly, whether in rural or metropolitan areas.

The humor in this book was so rich that I would recommend this to all the staff of the emergency services, simply as a way to cope and relieve stress with a good laugh. Among the many comedy sketches, one of my favorites was the response of a patient when the admitting nurse asked for his name:

I'm too sick to speak. Ask my husband what my name is … Can not you see I'm sick? What about you, I was wondering when it's obvious I can not breathe? Want know something, ask my husband. I have no breath to answer your questions. You supposed to be a nurse, you should know that.

Many similar stories were asked simple questions about patients and patients antics ranging from urinating on the walls of the hospital for presenting for pregnancy tests and free food, and another favorite, the man who complains that you're having a heart attack, and when the nurse is not diagnostic and asked to wait, decides to go out to smoke.

May also tells many stories of rewarding experiences, especially going to help people in Mississippi after Hurricane Katrina. Hurricane victims offered to emergency services workers the last of his food out of gratitude, gas stations gasoline provided workers free and snacks and people at airports, when they saw workers in your emergency kit and learned that returning from helping hurricane victims, said: "Thank you. Thanks for whatever you did."

I say, "Thank you, Sherry Jones of May for writing this book important to you and your co-workers to work twelve hour days, overtime, wear her own body, care of us, and which present situations that nobody should have to, get the recognition they deserve for everything you do for the rest of us. Thanks for taking care of us, even when we are sick, is not desirable. I do not know how do, not a job I could do, but I will not forget what you and your coworkers the next time you go through that every day I need attention .

I know several EMTs and nurses to whom I will recommend this book wholeheartedly. I trust anyone who says he will do the same.

For more information about “Confessions of a Trauma Junkie” and Sherry Jones Mayo, visit her website at http://www.SherryJonesMayo.com

Tyler R. Tichelaar holds a Bachelor’s and Master’s Degree from Northern Michigan University and a Ph.D. from Western Michigan University. His family’s long relationship with Upper Michigan and his avid interest in genealogy inspired Dr. Tichelaar to write his Marquette Trilogy: Iron Pioneers, The Queen City, and Superior Heritage. Dr. Tichelaar is also a professional book reviewer and editor. For more information about Tyler R. Tichelaar, his writing, and his author services, visit:

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