Trauma Junkie: Memoirs of an Emergency Flight Nurse

I read this book a few years ago before going into nursing and I loved it. I instantly knew that I wanted to be a flight nurse. I just recently found my copy in a box and reread it now that I have been an ER nurse for over a year, and I still loved it. Janice does an excellent job of balancing the stories with humor, feeling, and reality. It's a tough job, but somebody has to do it! Excellent read if you like tv's ER.

Finally another book worth five stars! This book is simply the best of its kind. Janice Hudson and Trauma Junkie surpass by far the many other Emergency Medical books I've come across. She is truly a professional and experienced Medic. She delves into the precise medical techniques of every call with great clarity. After reading this book you almost don't need field experience... Yet she tells it all in such a story book fashion, what an interesting blend. This is the kind of book I mutter a silent prayer after every chapter that it grows thicker with 300 pages. Oh well, Janice, I'll just have to wait for your next book.

This book is in a word "Fascinating" and "Delightful Reading".

Oh, humanity! This book captures it from the two extremes of people's most humane and most un-human moments. There's food for thought for those who care to partake, and an adventure in medicine for those who do not.

Trauma Junkie is a wonderful book that's not just a collection of emergency rescue stories, but a funny, sometimes sad, always moving account of what it is to be human--especially under the most trying circumstances. Janice Hudson skillfully conveys how the characters who populate the pages of Trauma Junkie, whether caregiver or patient, heroic or tragic, brave or flawed, are connected by their humanity --as are we all.