Get Free Shipping on orders over $89
The Nurses - Alexandra Robbins

The Nurses

By: Alexandra Robbins

Paperback | 1 June 2016 | Edition Number 1

At a Glance

Paperback


RRP $34.99

$33.99

or 4 interest-free payments of $8.50 with

 or 

Ships in 5 to 10 business days

Nurses is the compelling story of the year in the life of four nurses, and the drama, unsung heroism, and unique sisterhood of nursing—one of the world’s most important professions (nurses save lives every day), and one of the world’s most dangerous, filled with violence, trauma, and PTSD.

In following four nurses, Alexandra Robbins creates sympathetic characters while diving deep into their world of controlled chaos. It’s a world of hazing—“nurses eat their young.” Sex—not exactly like on TV, but surprising just the same. Drug abuse—disproportionately a problem among the best and the brightest, and a constant temptation. And bullying—by peers, by patients, by hospital bureaucrats, and especially by doctors, an epidemic described as lurking in the “shadowy, dark corners of our profession.”

The result is a page-turning, shocking look at our health-care system.

About the Author

Alexandra Robbins, winner of the prestigious 2014 John Bartlow Martin Award for Public Interest Magazine Journalism, is the author of four New York Times bestsellers, including Pledged and The Geeks Shall Inherit the Earth. She has written for The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, The New York Times, and other publications, and has appeared on numerous television shows from 60 Minutes to The Colbert Report.

More in Science, Technology & Medicine Biographies

Nature's Last Dance : Tales of wonder in an age of extinction - Natalie Kyriacou
Periodic Bitch - Emma Hardy

RRP $29.99

$24.99

17%
OFF
Being Patient : Close Encounters in Cancer World - Louise Chappell

RRP $34.99

$29.99

14%
OFF
How To Change Your Mind : New Science of Psychedelics - Michael Pollan
Put Your Feet in the Dirt, Girl : A memoir - Sonia Henry

RRP $36.99

$29.75

20%
OFF
Empire of Pain : The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty - Patrick Radden Keefe
Elon Musk - Walter Isaacson

Paperback

RRP $29.99

$24.99

17%
OFF
This is Going to Hurt : Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor - Adam Kay
Being Mortal : Illness, Medicine and What Matters in the End - Atul Gawande
Off the Charts - Georgie Carroll

RRP $34.99

$28.75

18%
OFF
Muskism : A Guide for the Perplexed - Quinn Slobodian

RRP $59.99

$45.75

24%
OFF
We Are As Gods : A Survival Guide for the Age of Abundance - Peter H. Diamandis