From SCONC:
Wednesday, March 25
7 p.m.
"Something for the Pain: One Doctor's Account of Life and Death in the ER," a book reading and discussion by author Paul Austin, MD hosted by the American Medical Writers Association, Carolinas Chapter. Austin, a former firefighter who is now an emergency room physician at Durham Regional Hospital, has written "a relentlessly honest look at modern emergency medicine," in the words of Publisher's Weekly. At the Friday Center, UNC-Chapel Hill. Please RSVP by March 18 to Ellen Stoltzfus (estoltzfus@nc.rr.com).
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