{"product_id":"9781550651218","title":"Wardlife","description":"\u003cp\u003eFor nine years Andrew Steinmetz worked as a ward clerk in the Intensive Care Unit and Emergency Department of a major hospital. \u003cb\u003eWardlife\u003c\/b\u003e is a series of riveting prose vignettes—intensely observed moments drawn from diaries kept during the nine years he spent as a ward clerk. With character sketches, dialogues, and brief meditations on subjects ranging from the language of poetry to the language of medicine, \u003cb\u003eWardlife\u003c\/b\u003e records the hospital experience—the pathos and pain, the humor and horror—of life on the wards. A profound and deeply sympathetic understanding of this unique environment is conveyed. Described are the feel of instruments, the tone of a locating girl's voice calling code blue, the oddly triumphant grieving of a family watching and singing at a dying father's bedside, and the complications of various hospital subcultures.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vehicule Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47049708437744,"sku":"9781550651218","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781550651218_p0.jpg?v=1763752440","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781550651218","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}