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You see, it worked. This title grabbed your attention just like Suzann e Gordon said it would. Suzanne Gordon is a journalist, not a nurse, s o she ought to know something about grabbing a reader's attention. As it happens, she also knows something about nursing. If you want to be convinced, read her widely praised new book Life Support-Three Nurses on the Front Lines (Little, Brown 1997). So how does it happen that sh e is able to write and speak with authority about nursing? Because nur ses talked with her about what they do, how they do it, and why. And n ow she talks back to nurses. Tells us that our passion and anger are a ll that stand between us and the death of care giving. Challenging thi ngs bike that.