Confessions of a Male Nurse
Ferri’s bestselling novel, Confessions of a Male Nurse looks at the adventures of Steele, who finds himself in nursing school by sheer accident, and falls in love with the profession. Along the way Steele encounters a somewhat colorful cast of individuals from the serious to the ridiculous. However, each one is painted with strokes of undeniable truth.
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“INFECTIOUS AND AT TIMES HILARIOUS. . . . A very funny book. . . . Helps us live vicariously in the world of a male nurse—albeit a very dysfunctional male nurse who is gay, trying to shoulder the weight of the world, and looking for love with clipboard in hand. Talk about a layered character!â€
Cape Cod Times
“RICHARD FERRI IS NO FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE—at least not when it comes to putting his feelings down in words. And his readers can count themselves lucky for that. The novel has its serious side, but above all else it’s playful.â€
Provincetown Banner
“Although described as a novel, it is obvious that the author, a real-life nurse practitioner, spread his life out on paper and then changed some names. The result is a collection of poignant, hysterical, sorrowful, angry, witty, and gut-wrenching incidents that make up all first-year nurses’ lives.â€
We The People (Voice of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgendered Community in the North Bay
“Mr. Ferri’s writing is smooth, breezy, punctuated with the quick curses of startled, stymied people laboring as well as they can. . . . THIS IS A BRAVE BOOK. IT IS ALSO A VERY FUNNY BOOK; a current of jest runs through it as medical professionals perform both misdeeds and, sometimes, the miraculous. But in truth it is a serious book, if rarely somber, and speaks of ill-training, guesswork and mismanagement, and the resultant tragedies that should have been abridged but, in the harried atmosphere of the hospital, were not.â€
Mary Oliver, Author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning American Primitive and the National Book Award-winning New and Selected Poems
“This RIOTOUS AND ABSORBING tale puts truth behind every outrage, farce in every observation, and pulls no punches along the way. In quick succession you’ll laugh, you’ll be scandalized, you’ll cry, and then you’ll laugh through your tears. Richard Ferri’s perfect pitch for the wicked wisecrack and his deft way of mixing the sublime with the ridiculous make him a rare writer and his book a delightful read.â€
Luciano Guerriero, Author of The Spin, Brooklyn Noir, and Chicago Noir
“MOVING AND OFTEN HUMOROUS . . . long overdue. We need to welcome this kind of discussion of the coming-of-age of a professional. This sometimes-shocking account of the experience of a gay male nurse will provoke many emotions among readers.â€
Suzanne Gordon, Author of Nursing Against the Odds: How Health Care Cost-Cutting, Media Stereotypes, and Medical Hubris Undermine Nurses and Patient Care
August 18th, 2008 at 11:15 am
At one point I thought I was the only person who was funny enough to write stuff like this.
August 18th, 2008 at 11:19 am
You thought I was joking? Just wait for the next one!
March 10th, 2009 at 11:36 pm
Having lived through the fashion and medical horrors of the 1980’s I deeply identified with this book. Unfortunately it was me and not the nurses aid that mistook the nitroglycerin paste for hand lotion. I can hardly wait for the sequel!
March 11th, 2009 at 6:55 am
Thanks for the note Michael. I am happy you enjoyed the book. The sequel is DONE! It is (working title) called “Wounded Healers” and is somewhat darker than “Confessions” but still filled with a lot of humor and always the truth. Now I am working on collection of short stories and essays to be called “Self-Inflicted Wounds”. Thanks once again. Ric
March 14th, 2009 at 9:40 pm
I greatly enjoyed reading this book. After reading about 30 pages I accidently left it at a coffee counter in Philadelphia Airport. So I bought a second copy. I hope some lucky guy picked it up and enjoyed it as much as I did. I will buy the next one as well. Of course I am still trying to figure out who the Famous Actress is.
March 15th, 2009 at 7:11 am
Thanks for the note and BUYING two copies of the book…sorry for the mishap at the coffee counter though. While it has been impossible for me “run away” from the obvious fact that “Confessions” is somewhat biographical in nature I have to admit all the characters and situations mainly came from my scrambled brained mind with a little dash of actual incidents thrown in. So the “famous actress” is….drum roll please…who the hell knows….but it could be anybody that was appearing in major Broadway show in the early 80s!
My new book continues is indeed a sequel and is (tentatively) called “Wounded Healers”. It is much “darker” and follows Storm and Steele deeper into the early days of the AIDS epidemic. “Wounded Healers” still maintains that humor I tried so hard to convey in “Confessions” but takes a very odd turn. It is also done at a new publisher as we speak! (My old publisher went out the fiction publishing business which is sadly happening more and more these days because of Internet reading instead of my “old fashion” notion of going to a local book store and buying a hard copy to read. I will put you on my email list if you don’t mind and I really appreciate the time and effort of your contacting me. Cheers. Ric