Breathtaking - the UK's human story of Covid

Zusatztext 'With Breathtaking , the palliative care specialist turns her attention to Covid, in a raw and unflinching portrayal of life on the frontline of the pandemic...Deeply humane, Breathtaking is a book replete with courage, resilience and empathy.' Informationen zum Autor Before going to medical school, Dr Rachel Clarke was a television journalist and documentary maker. She now specialises in palliative medicine, caring deeply about helping patients live the end of their lives as fully and richly as possible - and in the power of human stories to build empathy and inspire change. Rachel is the author of three Sunday Times bestselling books. Breathtaking reveals what life was really like inside the NHS during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic last year. Dear Life , shortlisted for the 2020 Costa Biography Award and long-listed for the 2020 Baillie Gifford Prize, is based on her work in a hospice. It explores love, loss, grief, dying and what really matters at the end of life. Your Life in My Hands documents life as a junior doctor on the NHS frontline. Klappentext From the bestselling author of Dear Life, Breathtaking is a compassionate, heartbreaking and compelling account of an NHS doctor in the midst of the greatest public health crisis in living memory. Vorwort From the bestselling author of Dear Life , Breathtaking is a compassionate, heartbreaking and compelling account of an NHS doctor in the midst of the greatest public health crisis in living memory. Zusammenfassung From the bestselling author of Dear Life, Breathtaking is a compassionate, heartbreaking and compelling account of an NHS doctor in the midst of the greatest public health crisis in living memory.

Product details

• Authors: Rachel Clarke
• Publisher: Little Brown
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2021
• EAN: 9781408713785
• ISBN: 978-1-4087-1378-5
• No. of pages: 240
• Dimensions: 148 mm x 234 mm x 18 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General, Autobiography: general, MEDICAL / Infectious Diseases, MEDICAL / Infection Control, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Medical (incl. Patients), Public health & preventive medicine, Medical microbiology & virology, Biography: science, technology & medicine, Respiratory medicine, Medical ethics & professional conduct