Notes of an Emergency Doctor. Life on the Ground Floor

Combining work in the trauma center in Toronto with work in the largest university hospital, Addis Ababa, James Maskalik discovers that, although these hospitals differ in many-cultural characteristics, accessibility of resources, medical problems-they also have something in common: this is the first floor, this floor, this floor, where the receiving department is located. It is here, on the ground floor, the maskalik is facing face to face with his fears and doubts, with sorrow and joy, tragedies and hopes of patients, fragility of being and the unbending of the human spirit. He has not in the role of a doctor, but as a grandson caring for his ninety -year -old grandfather.
This masterfully written and gracefully structured book is something more than the memoirs of an emergency assistance. These are reflections on health and illness, as well as when you need to hold on to life tightly, and when it is time to let it go.
James Maskalik, the author of the Bestseller and received the recognition of the critics of the book “Six months in Sudan”, an urgent doctor , Honored teacher and member of the organization Doctors without Borders. He conducts meditation classes in the “Club of Researchers of Consciousness” and currently combines work in Toronto and Addis-Abbe.
The book "Life on the ground floor"
Canada National bestseller
Hilari Weston Prize winner Writers" Trust Prize for the best book of the documentary prose genre
short-list of the Taylor KBK Prize, the Trillium Book Award Literary Prize and Edna Shteleer Prize in the Genre of Creative Documentary Prose
Toronto literary prize finalist
Long list of the Canada Reads Prize and the National Prize of British Colombia for the best book of Canada in the documentary prose genre
The best book of 2017 according to Globe and Mail, National Post, CBC, Chatelaine