At the moment I’m reading an essay by the awesomely named Russell Wangersky about his time as a volunteer firefighter in this book (hey, Monique, check that URL). It’s appropriate, then, that Travis pointed me to Medic, a blog in which “a transplanted EMT family from California embarks on a new life”. From a recent entry:
We picked up an elderly patient from the hospital to transport to her nursing home (NH). She was “extremely demented” and unintelligible. I walked into her room and was greeted by the stuff of childrens nightmares…she had a 3inch ‘X’ lac right between her eyes with black sutures like barbed-wire. Her eyes were so sunken back in her head that you could stick a finger between her eyelid and eyebrow up to the first knuckle. She had ‘racoons-eyes’ (two black eyes which is common with head trauma) and, perhaps what made it most disturbing, a great big smile on her face and the soft restraints on her wrists.
That’s gripping (and visceral) stuff.
DarrenBarefoot.com 
Darren, what’s your opinion on that book? I’ve read mixed reviews of it, but I still think it would be an interesting book for my book club to do, especially since our book club has both male and female members.
Alexis: I’m only on the second story (and I thought the first one kind of sucked), so I don’t have much of an opinion.
I wouldn’t normally have picked the book, but it was a gift. I may get all the way through it, I may not.
Wow, crappy job getting details on the Amazon site. No cover, no copy = no sale.
Thomas Allen’s website has the details.
Good job citing the .ca site, even though it has lousy content.
I was thinking about the “manly set” yesterday, perhaps I’ll have a peak through the book.