Good Times In The Hospital: A Medical Memoir

Were you ever transformed by a great book or stimulated by a special film and felt compelled to tell your friends about it

, simply because you wanted others to share the experiencebenefit from it as you did? Well, during my forty years in medical education and hospital healthcare, I was surprised to encounter many unlikely, poignant, and humorous anecdotesso, when I retired I wanted to share this with as many people as possible. This motivated me to write good times in the hospital, which is now available on the amazonbooks and xlibris bookstore websites. Although hospitals are engaged in the most serious business imaginable, good times reminds us that it is unhealthy to take life too seriously and a lighthearted temperament is as important as a sound diet. It promotes the viewpoint that, "doctors are no worse than other people," and illustrates that the behavior of many patients is often, "some combination of fascinating, inexplicable, and ridiculous." I advise prospective readers that, "if you think it is inappropriate to laugh at doctors attending the sick and entertain ourselves with yarns of patients in the hospital, you are reading the wrong book."

Good times in the hospital includes chapters about juvenile practical jokes among medical students, mistakes by doctors in training, serious life lessons learned at the bedside, hospital affairs that end badly, doctors threatening other doctors with handguns, a girl who tries to stop her grandma's pacemaker with an MRI scanner, an identical twin who has the surgery intended for her twin sister (to instigate a lawsuit), an old man patiently waiting his turn in a charity hospital emergency room while holding his intestines in his hands, boyhood memories of a doctor who accompanied his father making house calls, a doctor who missed his chance to win a Nobel prize by not listening to his patient, an intriguing case of domestic abuse, fascinating hypochondriacs, insights into why intelligent people spend their last dollar on irrational treatments, amazing examples of cures by mind over matter, the importance of our attitude on our wellness, and even reflections on the question of medical miracles.

Kirkus reviews states that, "these episodes convey more than perverse yuks and riotous misbehavior. A patient....PROMPTS A meditation on the human craving for certainty and control. A luminous remembrance....SERVES To highlight the physician's role in reassuring people about the verities of life and death. McCully's painfully comical recollections of his own mistakes show the exhaustion, self-doubt, and frailty that bedevil doctors beneath their veneer of unflappable expertise. He writes in a lively, vivid style infused with common sense, a keen wit and a knack for explaining complex medical issues. His entertaining, illuminating chronicle of medical misadventures yields perceptive insights."

by: James

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