{"product_id":"life-on-the-ground-floor-letters-from-the-edge-of-emergency-medicine","title":"Life on the Ground Floor: Letters from the Edge of Emergency Medicine","description":"\u003cp\u003eNational Bestseller\u003cbr\u003e\nWinner of the 2017 Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction\u003cbr\u003e\nShortlisted for the 2018 RBC Taylor Prize\u003cbr\u003e\nShortlisted for the 2018 Trillium Book Award\u003cbr\u003e\nShortlisted for the 2018 Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction\u003cbr\u003e\nLonglisted for the 2018 B.C. National Award for Canadian Nonfiction\u003cbr\u003e\nFinalist for the 2017 Toronto Book Awards\u003cbr\u003e\nCanada Reads 2019 Longlist\u003cbr\u003e\nNamed a Best Book of the Year by Globe and Mail , National Post, CBC, Chatelaine\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMasterfully written and artfully structured, Life on the Ground Floor is a celebrated humanitarian doctor's unique perspective on sickness, health and what it is to be alive.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDeeply personal in its scope, doctor and activist James Maskalyk--author of the highly acclaimed Six Months in Sudan --draws upon his experience treating patients in the world's emergency rooms. From Toronto to Addis Ababa, Cambodia to Bolivia, he discovers that although the cultures, resources and medical challenges of each hospital may differ, they are linked indelibly by the ground floor: the location of their emergency rooms. Here, on the ground floor, is where Dr. Maskalyk witnesses the story of \"human aliveness\"--our mourning and laughter, tragedies and hopes, the frailty of being and the resilience of the human spirit. And it's here too that he is swept into the story, confronting his fears and doubts and questioning what it is to be a doctor.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ANT-BOOK","offers":[{"title":"Ebook","offer_id":53958010241392,"sku":"978-0385674034","price":8.39,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":53958010274160,"sku":"978-0385674034","price":41.72,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1009\/8543\/8576\/files\/919gLP_gG7L._SY522.jpg?v=1782789528","url":"https:\/\/antbook.store\/de\/products\/life-on-the-ground-floor-letters-from-the-edge-of-emergency-medicine","provider":"ANTBOOK","version":"1.0","type":"link"}