Date 26 November 2020
Pages 446
Format cm 14 x 22
Price € 18.00
EAN 9782749154428
Publisher Website www.cherche-midi.com

Living Emergencies

Publisher Le Cherche Midi
GENRE Essay - Sociology
Keywords ER - Medicine - Simone Veil
A collection of Patrick Pelloux's finest writing.

Living Emergencies is the story of Charles, who has a blocked artery and needs an operation at once. Of Penelope, a dancer with a femoral neck fracture. Of Sandrine, who tried to kill herself after a bad breakup. Of an abused baby saved despite a fractured skull.
In these hundred-odd short pieces, Patrick Pelloux plunges us into daily life in an ER: scenes of high drama, often with happy or even funny endings, because when all's said and done, you need a sense of humor to keep living. These profoundly humanistic chronicles are torn from the pages of reality and point an accusing finger at the ever-insufficient means given to hospitals and the health system.