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Ew! Ew! Ew!: Real Stories from a Small-Town ER

Kerry Hamm works as an emergency room registration clerk at a small hospital in Ohio. In this short collection, she shares strange injuries from patients who were not thinking clearly, along with sadder moments that show the less amusing side of the emergency room. The stories come from years of working at the front desk, and they also include the telltale signs that someone has spent too long in an ER.

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The pieces mix humor and heartache, so a reader may laugh one moment and feel a lump in the throat the next. It is a compact, lively look at what happens behind the sliding glass doors of a busy small-town emergency room.

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