Pain Killers: A Year in an ER

Description

Mary Grace claims she’s moving for her first nursing job, but she’s really fleeing home. She arrives in a strange city with three sets of scrubs, one dark secret, and the sickening sense that the nuns were right about big-city doctors. Especially Dr. David Korn, the handsome tyrant running the ER like he invented medicine. She is first challenged, then charmed, then changed by these big-city misfits: the disabled vagrant, the vaudevillian playwright, the flirty orderly and even that arrogant doctor.

Pain Killers is a story that reveals itself in hospital memos, diary entries, letters, ER logs, notes left in the margins. From scribbled threats against lunch thieves to bulletins selling puppies, each addictive snippet sketches the chaos of a 1970s emergency room. Each scrap tells its own small truth. Set them side by side and a larger picture forms, the one Mary Grace can’t see: she’s already forming a family. And these misfits would do anything for her.