https://gateway.bibliocommons.com/v2/libraries/lethlib/rss/search?query=%22Maskalyk%2C%20James%22&searchType=author&view=groupedRSS for NodeMon, 13 Apr 2026 11:29:05 GMThttps://lethlib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S40C2331514https://lethlib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S40C2331514Tue, 31 Jan 2017 00:00:00 GMThttps://lethlib.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2331514040BKLetters From the Edge of Emergency Medicineenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780385665971/MC.GIF&client=chinookarch&type=xw12&oclc=*Canada Reads 2019 Longlist
*Winner of the 2017 Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction
Do no harm is our most important rule, but we break it all the time trying to do good.
 
In this deeply personal book, winner of the 2017 Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction, humanitarian doctor and activist James Maskalyk reflects upon his extensive experience in emergency medicine. Splitting his time between a trauma centre in Toronto's inner city and the largest teaching hospital in Addis Ababa, he discovers that though the cultures, resources and medical challenges of the hospitals may differ, they are linked indelibly by the ground floor: the location of their emergency rooms. Here, on the ground floor, is where Maskalyk confronts his fears and doubts about medicine, and witnesses our mourning and laughter, tragedies and hopes, the frailty of being and the resilience of the human spirit.
     Yet, he is swept most intimately into this story of "human aliveness" not as a physician, but as a grandson carrying for his grandfather, now in his nineties.
     Masterfully written and artfully structured, Life on the Ground Floor is more than just an emergency doctor's memoir—it's a meditation on health and sickness, on when to hang on tight, and when to let go.]]>https://lethlib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C2986163https://lethlib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C2986163Tue, 31 Jan 2017 00:00:00 GMThttps://lethlib.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2986163980EBOOKLetters from the Edge of Emergency Medicineenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780385674034/MC.GIF&client=chinookarch&type=xw12&oclc=https://lethlib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S40C516038https://lethlib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S40C516038Sat, 31 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMThttps://lethlib.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/516038040BKA Young Doctor in A War-torn Villageenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780385665957/MC.GIF&client=chinookarch&type=xw12&oclc=