Your Life In My Hands A Junior Doctor's Story

Clarke, Rachel

ISBN 10: 1789463653 / ISBN 13: 9781789463651

Published by Metro Publishing, London, 2020

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First printing of Metro paperback edition with full number line, 2020. Nice tight flat copy, no names or marks inside. Brand new unopened book. Cover design by Annie Arnold with images courtesy of Getty Images and Shutterstock. ; 320 pages; In Your Life in My Hands, television journalist turned junior doctor Rachel Clarke captures the extraordinary realities of life on the NHS frontline. During the historic junior doctor strikes of 2016, Rachel was at the forefront of the campaign against the government's imposed contract upon young doctors. Her heartfelt, deeply personal account of life as a junior doctor in today's underfunded NHS is both a powerful polemic on the degradation of Britain's most vital public institution and a love letter of optimism and hope to that same health service.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Your Life In My Hands A Junior Doctor's Story
• Publisher: Metro Publishing, London
• Publication Date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1789463653
• ISBN 13: 9781789463651
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: Reprint; First Printing.
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF DEAR LIFE

'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?

In Your Life in My Hands, television journalist turned junior doctor Rachel Clarke captures the extraordinary realities of life on the NHS frontline. During the historic junior doctor strikes of 2016, Rachel was at the forefront of the campaign against the government's imposed contract upon young doctors. Her heartfelt, deeply personal account of life as a junior doctor in today's NHS is both a powerful polemic on the degradation of Britain's most vital public institution and a love letter of optimism and hope to that same health service.