Book excerpt: Always Leave Your Guard Up is a part two of the author’s true story of hospital life and death while working at an inner-city general hospital. The author weaves a very detailed chronical of his exposure with people and situations in these chapters. This book contains serious, outlandish, sexy and sometimes off-color and humorous situations with characters, patients and employees in its chapters. This book is another true story of life, death and everything in between experienced by this young man. The most appropriate description of this book is, “You can’t make this stuff up.”