Shock-Trauma

Shock-Trauma by Jon Franklin. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780312717414.

This book tells of the origin of the trauma system in our country today. It is a must read of everyone still, since trauma centers are closing annually. This book makes clear why we still need trauma centers. The Shock Trauma Center, in Baltimore, Maryland, is an amazing place with heroic people, performing a job that is beyond our grasp to to understand, nor deal with. The book stands up well to the passage of time. R Adams Cowley is the father of the US shock trauma system, and he founded shock trauma MD.