Tengo Sed Audiobook By James Fleming cover art

Tengo Sed

A Novel: Literature and Medicine

 Preview
Try for $0.00
Prime logo Prime members: New to Audible?
Get 2 free audiobooks during trial.
Pick 1 audiobook a month from our unmatched collection.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, Originals, and podcasts.
Access exclusive sales and deals.
Premium Plus auto-renews for $14.95/mo after 30 days. Cancel anytime.

Tengo Sed

By: James Fleming
Narrated by: Matthew Dudley
Try for $0.00

$14.95/month after 30 days. Cancel anytime.

Buy for $14.95

Buy for $14.95

Confirm purchase
Pay using card ending in
Switch payment method
By confirming your purchase, you agree to Audible's Conditions of Use and Amazon's Privacy Notice. Taxes where applicable.
Cancel

About this listen

The Trauma ICU of a Level 1 trauma center is the setting for this thought-provoking novel, which reveals the ruthlessness of medical education and practice. James Fleming recounts a day in the life of a resident in emergency medicine at an urban teaching hospital. The novel's title, which translates loosely as I thirst, echoes the Christ of St. John. Tengo Sed's protagonist, however, known only as Hovercraft because he is always around, always feeling on edge, is not a savior but a hapless resident with a tendency toward mysticism. Through Hovercraft's sleep-deprived eyes we see patients and their families, doctors, and nurses, and we share Hovercraft's increasingly nightmarish perceptions of a world in which things are not going right.

©2010 James Fleming (P)2012 Audible, Inc. Genre Fiction Medical
adbl_web_global_use_to_activate_T1_webcro805_stickypopup
All stars
Most relevant  
This book is so much more than a well written narrative of a Medical Intern’s experience. It is a beautiful story that travels through time and space peering into the lives and experiences of those who’s Fate brings them to an ER in New Mexico.

Fleming’s skilled use of language quickly paints touching portraits of individuals throughout the novel the listener will not soon forget.

The Intern/narrator (who is around 40), while struggling to master his profession and self doubt, possesses a wisdom and depth to be present to those around him. As a result, in the midst of tragedy and death great depth and insight into the human condition, that’s alway striving for meaning and understanding, is revealed in this novel. It will speak to anyone in any profession.

Mathew Dudley, who narrates the story, is excellent and lays out an enjoyable listening experience.

What a profound touching story

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
What could go wrong?

Emergency room: urban desert hospital— meet a young ER intern nicknamed Hovercraft. He's thrown into a world about which he had no idea.

Written like a memoir, by an emergency room doctor in Albuquerque this novel doesn’t let up. Every time you think you know what really goes on in triage, the story will throw you for another loop.

This is like Michael Herr’s “Dispatches” for the medical set.

ER Intern, No Sleep, & A Coffee Diet

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.