this is amazing. you must read.

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01i00Code Blue (William02i00 Morrow and company, IN, New York, 1982) is a remarkably well written personal memoir putting the true events of Barbara Huttman’s life in chronological order. The book shows great insight and inspires every individual to go for their dream and to never give up on any goal they make for themselves even if there are stumbling blocks that fall in their way. 01i00Code Blue02i00 gives readers insight and hope through the operating doors of a hospital to show what really happens when a patient is admitted, leading individuals to a world of heroes and rejoicing all in the strength and courage of the human spirit. If one is looking to aspire a dream regardless of their age and can remind them of Barbara. It’s a journey of personal and a significant account of a middle aged house wife who decides to go back to school and get a nursing degree02br
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00“I was going to be the compassionate nurse who dispensed comfort the way it had been dispensed when I had been a patient. The particular of “comfort” didn’t matter-whatever it took, I intended to do it” (Huttman, 25).02br
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00 00Readers that get attached to the story line can reminisce and put themselves in her shoes as a patient. They can allow themselves to remember a time when they were in a hospital where they were cared for and thinking of a way to show gratitude for the words of encouragement and hope that the nurses provided for them. Similarly, Barbara remembers situations where her kids or her were cared for and realizes how she was being treated and wants to give back as a nurse to her future patients that she deals with is taking care of. 02br
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01i00Code Blue 02i00will also bring tears to the reader’s eyes as they read stories of survival of patients and how Barbara never once gives up on them. 02br
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00“Bills burns were second-degree and the slightest air current across his body caused excruciating pain” (Huttman, 35). 02br
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00Bill wants a shot for the pain but one of the nurses that work with Barbara says that “Billy can’t have it, it’s too early. Don’t pay any attention to him yet”.00 00Barbara thinks twice and tells her that she can’t ignore him. He’s in pain. Barbara is a caring nurse unlike the other nurses that work with her. They were selfless and didn’t give or show compassion to the patients. 02br
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00As a nurse, Barbara 00Huttman00 sees horrors that most of the general population will never encounter. Even worse, in every one of her cases, there is a human element. There is always a back-story. One can understand when reading this book where she is coming from because and doctors are under an oath to keep people alive, but where is one to draw the line? Is it ever ethical to let a patient die? This is the predicament that Barbara 00Huttman00 faces with a terminally ill cancer patient. Judith Goldsmith told herself that she would die before Christmas Eve, however when all the nurses were telling Barbara that nurses can’t work miracles, she is optimistic and hopeful. 02br
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00“Judith’s spunk and enthusiasm were gone, which had dramatic effects on her body and she was convinced she would never get well again” (Huttman 43).02br
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00It is a rare moment when every nurse suddenly remembers why they want to become a nurse in the first place, and the patient Judith Newman was that reassurance for Barbara. While all the other nurses have given up on her and tell Barbara that there is no hope, Barbara believed. 02br
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00However, Barbra then realizes that her hopeful patient Judith Newman unexpectedly is dying of congestive heart failure. It is simply impossible for someone to simply watch while a woman fades into hopelessness and wilted away to a one hundred pound living corpse, surviving on an oxygen mask and IV fluids, especially if it is happening against her will. As one reads 01i00Code Blue02i00, they might then be able to agree with Nurse 00Huttman’s00 decision to fail to resuscitate her even though as a nurse she is trained to save everyone or at least try. 02br
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00In 1982 Barbara wrote a few articles in the American Journal of Nursing title “05002h2

00“It is less inhumane to allow a man to die than it is to let a man live a physically and emotionally excruciating life” (The American Journal of Nursing, 1). 02br
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00As the reader they can agree and judge for themselves if they would allow someone to continue to be a pain and help them stay alive or just let them go in peace. As one reads the book, they are taken on a journey of transformation until a road block comes her way. Barbara in her hopes of becoming a nurse discovers that she is dying of a rare cancer called and has two months to live.00 00How does a nurse treat themselves? How does a nurse diagnose themselves? How does a nurse treat themselves as a patient? The readers learn through her journey of her trials and tribulations that it is harder to treat oneself as a patient.00 00Barbara has to give herself hope and words of encouragement and put on a brave self through the tough time. Will the possibility of her dying stop her from achieving the dream of becoming a nurse? The reader will then have to turn the page to find out. 02br
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00The readers will identify with the patients that Barbara treats and takes care of through and learn that they live a hard life but they never once give up even through the toughest times. Her patient Judith Newman “lives through the concentration camps, lives through watching her daughters and husband brutally murdered, lives through blindness, lives through one leg amputation, but never gives up” (Huttman, 275).02br
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00Even through her last moments of breath of air, she never once gives up and even then Barbara can’t perform a code blue because she says she has suffered enough. Barbara has to watch as the other nurses take force and try to feverishly save her life but there is no response and Judith dies. Barbara learns that a nurse has to try, at least try to save everyone.00 00“All things work together for the good. She was much too ill to go on”, the doctor tried so hard not cry as all of three of us sat there, holding hands, weeping all the tears that Judith could never shed herself.” ’02br
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00Dr. Martin was Chief of the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, 00 00 00 00, in 00 from 1976-2000, when the hospital closed its doors. He is now practicing pulmonary medicine with University Mednet, and is an Associate Professor of Medicine, CWRU School of Medicine. He reviewed many books about authors writing about his patients such as Code Blue by Barbra Huttman. “It is a well-written book that inspires us all and very insightful” (Dr. Martin)02br
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00Without giving too much away, one will agree with Dr. Martin that the book 01i00Code Blue02i00 inspires individuals everywhere because in life one encounters many tests and they have to work really hard at it and grab at it every second they get. Barbra learned from every patient that walked into the hospital, with every diagnosis and with every treatment. Everything happens for a reason and individuals meet people in their life to teach them a lesson and to show them something they have never seen before and that is exactly what Barbara’s patients did to her and made a profound nurse that won her many prizes physically and emotionally.02br
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