This extraordinary memoir offers a glimpse into a life spent between the operating room and the bedside, the mortuary and the doctors' mess, telling powerful truths about today's NHS frontline.
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 thepower of
human stories to build empathy and inspire change.
Her first book, the Sunday Times bestselling YOUR LIFE IN MY HANDS,
reveals what life is like for a junior doctor on the NHS frontline.
Her memoir DEAR LIFE (Little, Brown, Jan 2020) is based on her work
in a hospice. It explores love, loss, grief, dying and what really
matters at the end of life.
Rachel has written for the Guardian, Sunday Times, New York Times,
Independent,Telegraph, Prospect, BMJ, NEJM and Lancet. She has
appeared on BBC Radio 4 Today, BBC Newsnight, Channel 4 News, BBC
Woman's Hour, ITV News and SkyNews, among others.
She lives in Oxfordshire with her husband and two children.
From the very heart of the NHS comes this brilliant insight into
the continuing crisis in the health service. Rachel Clarke writes
as the accomplished journalist she once was and as the leading
junior doctor she now is - writing with humanity and compassion
that at times reduced me to tears.
*Jon Snow*
Dr Clarke has written a blockbuster, a page-turner, a tear-jerker.
This is a "from-the-heart" front-line account of the human cost of
the wanton erosion of a magnificent ideal - healthcare free at the
point of need, funded through public taxation, available to all -
made real in the UK for near 70 years. It is a love-song for the
wonderful National Health Service that has embodied - to an extent
equalled nowhere in the world - the principle that healthcare is
not a commodity but a great duty of state.
*Prof. Neena Modi, President of the Royal College of Paediatrics
and Child Health*
A powerful account of life on the NHS frontline. If only Theresa
May and Jeremy Hunt could see the passion behind the people in the
NHS, they might stop treating them as the enemy, and understand
that without them we don't have an NHS worth the name.
*Alastair Campbell*
I absolutely loved it this book. Such an elegant, moving and honest
account of life on the frontline. This is mandatory reading for
anyone who cares about the NHS. I am very often asked what it's
like to be a junior doctor, and I can now direct people to this
book. It's so refreshing to see someone tell it exactly as it
is.
*Joanna Cannon, author of The Trouble With Goats and Sheep*
Eloquent and moving... Anybody who wants to understand what is
happening to the NHS should read this book.
*The Times Magazine*
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