Life on the Line: Young Doctors Come of Age in a Pandemic Free Audiobook Download by Emma Goldberg

In Life on the Line, Emma Goldberg tells a story of young doctors who must face an unending series of challenges. They are well-educated individuals who have chosen their career path and taken the pledge to defend life. A pandemic is about to strike and everyone knows it, but it will be up to them to figure out what to do without all the proper tools. As they take in everything from anti-viral drugs to the latest medical equipment before the pandemic strikes, they learn what they need to know and how they should act.

This book is a story about the lives of four young doctors and their experiences during the H1N1 pandemic. Early on in their careers, they're faced with mortality when putting out fires that threaten to spread and ultimately end humanity. Despite their best efforts, these young doctors will be tested as they solve their first case and lose their innocence. Life on the Line is an inside look at the lives of these young doctors who are dedicated to helping people in dire need during a world-changing pandemic.

"Pondering the Future of Medicine" is not an easy task. Amid the uncertainty, many of us are feeling a new urgency to be present in our communities and to contribute where possible, whether it's donating our time and energy or sharing our expertise. In this must-listen book, Emma Goldberg helps us answer these important questions. She provides an overview of what it means to pioneer a medical revolution and how medical techniques have shifted over time, as well as new insights into the current state of global health.

Three years into the pandemic, first-year medical students at Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons find that in their training, they are given a crash course in emergency medicine. The emergency department is always busy, and with so many different types of patients coming through on a daily basis, it's easy to become jaded and disillusioned. That is until Sandy Rustin walks into the hospital. A doctor who had previously been working overseas, Sandy has made quite an impression with her unique and off-the-wall style. With the outbreak of the flu, patients come pouring into the emergency room in droves: they bleed from every orifice, vomit like there's no tomorrow, go comatose in seconds.

In 1918, the Spanish flu pandemic killed 50 million people and about 2% of Europe's population in just a few short months. Young doctors were thrust into the worst medical crisis experience of their lives where they had to make life or death decisions from a small room that was just a few feet by 6 feet. Their training took on new levels of meaning as they had to care for patients and each other when everything seemed hopeless.

Life on the Line is a book about a medical epidemic that takes place in New York City around the turn of the century. A young doctor tells us about how she struggles to save lives, sometimes with questionable results and always with issues of morality as they occur. The story is told through her eyes, her patient's and their families, as well as other doctors, nurses and paramedics.