Echo Heron

A good story, an interesting and somewhat scandalous revelation, and the Tiffany name combine to make this a very enjoyable read. I am uncomfortable with half of the story being fabricated. It makes it difficult to know what to take away from reading it. The themes are all of interest: women's rights, intellectual/artistic property, socioeconomic discrimination, lousy romantic choices, the value of natural family and family of choice....yep....all interesting.

This book is self-congratulatory swill. It's poorly written, and serves as a means of public self-stroking of the author's ego. Heron is rabidly determined to appear as "cute and plucky", always willing to stand up for herself against the overbearing doctors. This book consumed a day of my life that I will never get back, for which I am still resentful 6 years later.

This is the story of Echo Heron a nurse in a busy California hospital in the 1980's. Echo talks of her nurses training, patients, physicians and working in a cardiac care unit. The story is told with humor and poignancy.
She goes into great detail about several of the patients she worked with, which I enjoyed.

I am interested in medical stories, so I found this to be quite interesting. The author shares the trajectory of her career in nursing, from nursing school to being a dually placed Cardiac Care Nurse and ER Nurse. The patient stories were very interesting and gave much insight into the author's emotional response to various situations. Not bad.