Your Life In My Hands: a Junior Doctor's Story

✍ Scribed by Great Britain. National Health Service.;Clarke, Rachel

• Publisher: John Blake Publishing; Metro
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 175 KB
• Category: Fiction
• City: Great Britain.
• ISBN: 1786064510

✦ Synopsis

'I am a junior doctor. It is 4 a.m. I have run arrest calls, treated life-threatening bleeding, held the hand of a young woman dying of cancer, scuttled down miles of dim corridors wanting to sob with sheer exhaustion, forgotten to eat, forgotten to drink, drawn on every fibre of strength that I possess to keep my patients safe from harm.'

How does it feel to be spat out of medical school into a world of pain, loss and trauma that you feel wholly ill-equipped to handle?

To be a medical novice who makes decisions which - if you get them wrong - might forever alter, or end, a person's life?

To toughen up the hard way, through repeated exposure to life-and-death situations, until you are finally a match for them?

In this heartfelt, deeply personal account of life as a junior doctor in today's health service, former television journalist turned doctor, Rachel Clarke, captures the extraordinary realities of ordinary life on the NHS front line. From the...
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Great Britain