The Knife and Gun Club: Scenes from an Emergency Room (Hardcover)

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Product Description

Award-winning photographer Eugene Richards was asked by a magazine to report on what happens inside a typical emergency room. Once inside, he took photograps, talked with doctors and nurses and made friends with paramedics. He discovered a world he never knew existed. The Knife And Gun Club is the fascinating account of his exploration of emergency room medicine. Serial in LIFE magazine.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 240 pages
• Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press (October 26, 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0871136236
• ISBN-13: 978-0871136237
• Product Dimensions: 10.6 x 8.2 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.3 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #907,128 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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21 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars True, candid, a real life glimpse of the EMS system ..., December 23, 1999

By	"cpeaco1" (Denver, Colorado) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Knife and Gun Club: Scenes from an Emergency Room (Paperback)

The Knife and Gun Club gives a candid and uncensored look into Denver General Hospital's Emergency Room and Paramedic Division. Richards has captured the spirit of the personell of the Denver General ER. As an EMT trained at Denver General and the daughter of one of Denver General's first paramedics, I found this book very accurate and true to life. It spares no detail and gives the true flavor of one of the nations top trauma centers and emergency departments. If you have any interest in the emergency field, I suggest you read this book for a truthful look into an emergency room and the lives of the people who work in the emergency system. This book is fabulous, and very well written. Richards pulls the reader in to Denver General and all its supporting emergency systems. I have never read a better documentation or representation of the way emergency medicine in all its aspects truely is.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An un-censored look into emergency medicine & EMS in Denver, January 16, 1999

By	[e-mail] (York, PA) - See all my reviews

Richard's provides an unbiased look into the world of emergency medicine at Denver General hospital and Denver Emergency Medical Services. This book couples full page black & white pictures with interviews with various health proffesionals. A true look at the events and emotions surrounding emergency care.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Harsh Reality, July 5, 2006

By	Claire (USA) - See all my reviews

This book is an honest look into what goes on in a busy, public emergency room. It's filled with amazing black and white photography that captures so much emotion and drama. In between the pictures are candid interviews with the emergency room staff...their stories about the harsh reality they work in astonished me. This book is so much better than any medical TV show simply because everything in this book actually happened...and the true stories are better than anything I've ever seen on TV.