American Triage: From 9/11 to Fahrenheit 451 with Author, Firefighter and Medic Adam Axler
Kitchen Confidential meets The Pitt when former Ground Zero paramedic and physician assistant turned bookseller, Adam Axler, chronicles his front row seat at the decline of Western medicine. Whether it’s vaccines, vaginas, or vibrator removals, the machinations and demise of American medicine are revealed through sarcasm and tough love, offset by moments of connection and tenderness.
American Triage includes a terrifying 24 hour real-time account of September 11th. The aftermath will leave you crying and angry, and set the stage for solidifying Axler’s determination to be of service and subsequently a lifetime of disappointment. Why taking the science out of medicine has been disastrous for both its present and its future. And why your own participation in its destruction is much grayer than you think.
This hybrid memoir is hilarious and heartbreaking.
So, step inside. It’s time to be triaged.
“Axler demonstrates a real skill for pinpointing systemic failures and bringing them to light. These powerful stories build to a disquieting conclusion: both practitioners and patients may be reaching a collective breaking point. A sharp, urgent critique that’s at its most powerful at the intersection of lived experience and hard science.”
Adam Axler is a proud Clevelander. He has bartended at B-Dubs, worked as a firefighter/medic in Mentor, Ohio, and driven ambulances in New York from Yonkers to the World Trade Center. After almost two decades as a physician assistant, he has spent the last ten years as the happy owner of Collectible Science Fiction (collectiblesciencefiction.com), an online bookstore that makes many people happy as well. When not reading, collecting, or selling books, he enjoys his daily walks with his wife, Lori, and being the best girldad he can be to Sammi and Syd.
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