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Critical Care

A New Nurse Faces Death, Life, and Everything in Between

Theresa Brown

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•National and regional media campaign
•National review attention
•National radio interviews, including NPR
•Cross-promotion with New York Times “Well” blog
•Op/Ed campaign
•IndieBound outreach
•Academic and library marketing
•Online marketing with medical and patient care sites and blogs

Theresa Brown

Theresa Brown, RN, lives and works in the Pittsburgh area. She received her BSN from the University of Pittsburgh, and during what she calls her past life, a PhD in English from the University of Chicago. Brown is a regular contributor to the New York Times blog, “Well.” Her essay, “Perhaps Death is Proud; More Reason to Savor Life” was included in Best American Science Writing 2009. Critical Care is her first book. She lives with her husband, Arthur Kosowsky, their three children, and their dog.



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“Among all the recent books on medicine, Critical Care stands alone. It is a beautifully written account of a nurse’s first year on the wards, a medical memoir that combines lyricism and compassion with searing honesty and well-timed laugh-out-loud wit. What Theresa Brown has managed to do with her book is precisely what the best of nurses do with their patients—focus always on the heart of what matters. I loved this book.”


- Pauline Chen, author of Final Exam
"If Theresa Brown tends her patients as well as she tells her story, they are lucky patients indeed. This absorbing dispatch from the front lines of medical care captures the daily travails and triumphs of nursing with humor, compassion, and sometimes terrifying immediacy."


- Julie Salamon, author of Hospital and The Devil’s Candy
“Critical Care is a gift from an English-teacher-turned-nurse who writes from a deeply human context about her first year in a hospital oncology ward...A book of stirring stories about how we live, care for the sick and die.”


- Richard M. Cohen, author of Blindsided and Strong at the Broken Places
"Brown shows us what it means to be a nurse and helps us understand that nurses need as much intensive care as their patients. Sometimes more!"


- Suzanne Gordon, author of Nursing Against the Odds
"A must read for anyone who wants to understand healthcare. This extraordinary book will open your eyes to the reality of nursing. If you or your loved one ends up in the hospital, you'll wish you had someone like Nurse Brown at your side."


- Elizabeth Cohen, MPH, CNN Senior Medical Correspondent