Nothing Good Happens at … The Baby Hospital: The Strange, Silly World of Pediatric Brain Surgery by MD Daniel Fulkerson (PDF)

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When Daniel Fulkerson entered medical school, he pictured neurosurgery as a serious business that demanded precision, a harsh attitude, and a complete absence of fun. But after falling backwards into the specialty, Dr. Fulkerson found neurosurgery to be a field filled with joy, sadness, a little humor, and courageous and inspiring patients.In an honest and compelling retelling of his long and winding road to train and then practice as a pediatric neurosurgeon, Dr. Fulkerson guides others through his journey from medical school to service on a small military base, through residency training, and finally, to a practice in a highly specialized children’s hospital. The journey reveals the dramatic swings of emotions experienced by both patients and doctors in an increasingly hostile medical environment. Dr. Fulkerson also shares stories of dedicated professors who train medical students and resident surgeons to care for the tiniest neurosurgical patients.Nothing Good Happens at … The Baby Hospital offers a compelling glimpse into the joys, tragedies, and hopeful moments that surround the highly specialized and sometimes silly world of pediatric neurosurgery.

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⭐This book covers the song of life, sometimes it’s hard and sometimes sublime, but it’s always good! Here is a surgeon that realizes a child should be given a chance. Perhaps intervention is successful, and perhaps not. As the mother of a child who didn’t have much of a chance and is now a successful adult, I am glad there are doctors like Dr. Fulkerson and Dr. Patterson.

⭐I’m a nurse, and there is some technical information here that may be hard to comprehend without some medical training. But this is a beautiful story of joy and sorrow. Of work and family, sickness and health. Full of contrast, Dr. Fulkerson’s memoir speaks of students and teachers, parents and children, life and death. The insanity of military rules and red tape and the movement of medical care out of the hands of doctors and nurses and into the hands of the bureaucrats and lawyers and insanity is heartbreaking accurate. This book will bless you and break you. Reminiscent of “Cutting for Stone” (Abraham Verghese) and “The House of God” (Samuel Shem), this is a new classic in medical literature. Stop reading this review and go read this book!

⭐I’ve read thousands of books (many of this genre) and I can say without reservation that this is one of the best I’ve ever read. I don’t say that lightly and it’s because of it’s many dimensions; despite the subject matter it’s eminently readable and enjoyable, naturally loaded with pathos, it’s also full of timely and well-placed humor. It’s easy to see he cares very much, not just for his critically-important (and ill) patients, but for the nurses, doctors and essentially all of the good people in the world (as for the “others,” not so much). It was a pleasure to read and is comforting to know that there are professionals like him to care — and fight — for us and, most importantly, our children.

⭐This book shows you a view of life and death through the eyes of a pediatric neurosurgeon. It has uplifting and heartbreaking moments as well as humor and frustration. I had always wondered how doctors who worked with the sickest people and especially kids dealt with their difficult cases. This book takes you through the full range of what they feel and go through as real people. The medical terminology is both understandable and enlightening. I highly recommend this book as I received it on a Thursday evening and had finished it by the following Sunday evening. Make sure you read the footnotes as they contain interesting and fun tidbits.

⭐This is a wonderful book that I fully enjoyed reading. There wasn’t a dull moment in these stories filled with the pathos and joy of life. I also I appreciated Dr. Fulkerson’s insights and thoughts about the problems with today’s medical systems. He gives us many examples to draw upon and support the conclusions contained in the stories. I have always had appreciation of the sacrifices the specialty physicians endure and this book brings these facts into even clearer focus. In the meantime, the stories are very real and amazing. Dr. Fulkerson is a very talented writer.

⭐Very interesting enlightening stories about the intense training of a Pediatric neurosurgeon from his early schooling thru all his education. His descriptions of his patients, their surgeries and the consequences is often sad. I liked this book and recommend it as very enlightening.

⭐This book is beautiful. It will make you laugh, cry, and contemplate both life and death. My son is a shunt patient at “The Baby Hospital,” and his life was magnificently changed for the better because of Dr. Fulkerson. He is a rare surgeon with the ability to set aside his ego and really listen to his patients and read between the lines. He is the real deal, and his book is a delightful, though-provoking, and entertaining read.

⭐I especially enjoyed Dr. Fulkerson’s scholarship negotiations with the US military and his four years with the Air Force in Japan. His description of that watershed day in all our lives, September 11,2001, was vivid and heart rending. A reader can feel the rising pulse of our 19 year old soldiers.The young doctor’s view and reactions reminded me of 1968-69 when I was a American Red Cross Donut Dollie in Cam Ranh Bay in Vietnam.

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