It is surprising how well this book is rated when, in my opinion, it is terribly written.Mafako is clearly a medical practitioner, and the story revolves around what happens in the CICU in the Children's Hospital in Biloxi. Mafako repeats himself often, and his lengthy descriptions of medical procedures become draining and quite boring to be frank. His characters are poorly developed. He fails to create three-dimensional characters where the reader gets to like or dislike a character or, even be...

Eric Phillson and his wife Anna we’re happy living in Fort Myers Florida but when he got the opportunity to help build a whole new pediatric heart clinic for Children’s Hospital of Biloxi at first he hesitated but after visiting and bringing his family for a visit he decided to do it. The hospital was below the national standard average for care in this move would bring lots of personal strengths and challenges and would affect his personal life and his standing as a heart surgeon. From Doctors ...

" (...) One day you are king of your domain, the next you are being escorted from the premises by security. (...) " I met a real sociopath here.  He is a pediatric heart surgeon.  I was very scared.  I was afraid for the lives of his little patients.Our main character, Eric Philson has a wonderful wife, Ana, two beautiful daughters, a house and a high position.  He is the associate director of the Pediatric Cardiac Intensive Care Unit at Fort Myers Hospital.  He had everything that every man dre...

Burned Out by Dean MakafoBurned Out is a book about how as a workers, we could have a lot of challenges and also, how these challenges could impact in ours lives in all aspects.It's a great story about humanity on how the main male character needs to have the heart to do his job and give the best of him, but at the same time, you can see the whole world inside on doctor lives and hospital material, for example, one of those details are the rules and the policies of how hospitals works.. The book...

This is a novel that reads like a memoir. It follows the story of Dr. Eric Philson who is recruited from Ft. Myers to the CHOB, Children's Hospital of Biloxi, in their pediatric care unit. He recognizes that there are major issues in the department: understaffing, procedures, paper records, etc., and he sees it as an opportunity to make a difference. However, all of his changes can't help the bureaucracy that runs the hospital, and after several years of attempting to be a positive influence, Er...

Burned out is an outstanding book about the health industry, while reading this book I learned a lot about ins and outs of a hospital and to be honest this is the very first book I’ve read in this gerne, it is fiction but the author, Dean Mafako clearly shared his experience in this matter.This book sure shows how lives can be affected by working in a hospital, the intense hours take a toll on the doctors lives, professionally and personally; but maybe what’s more important is how the heath syst...

I stayed up into the wee hours of the morning devouring this book.Dr. Dean Mafako shares his fictionalized of the years of his career as a cardiac intensivist in Biloxi Mississippi in the late 2010s. He's hired to build up the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit, to hire staff, improve services, and more at their Children's Hospital. Reading this intense book, you'll learn about the medical industry, about the inner workings of hospitals, particularly the administrative and political side of hospitals. ...

An ambitious cardiac physician fights for the young patients in his care, facing a series of escalating conflicts that threaten to end his career in Dean Mafako, M.D.'s medical novel, BURNED OUT.

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Great story of a good doc's struggle

Awesome story about the good and bad of Healthcare. It's like was there from day one!! Anyone who works in the ICU setting could find themselves in the story line .

Excellent book about how different challenges at work can affect an individual’s life irreversibly. Highly recommend for anyone on healthcare or in any field for that matter.