Ebook: Your Life In My Hands--a Junior Doctor's Story
- Tags: HEALTH & FITNESS / Holism, HEALTH & FITNESS / Reference, MEDICAL / Alternative Medicine, MEDICAL / Atlases, MEDICAL / Essays, MEDICAL / Family & General Practice, MEDICAL / Holistic Medicine, MEDICAL / Osteopathy, Medicine, Residents (Medicine), Residents (Medicine)--Great Britain, Clarke Rachel -- Career in medicine, Great Britain. -- National Health Service, Residents (Medicine) -- Great Britain, Great Britain
- Year: 2017
- Publisher: John Blake Publishing
- City: Great Britain
- Language: English
- epub
'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...