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emily_p1's review
emotional
informative
inspiring
medium-paced
4.75
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death, Terminal illness, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Child death, Gore, Blood, Dementia, Grief, and Death of parent
Minor: Drug abuse and Drug use
joemkl's review
emotional
funny
informative
inspiring
reflective
sad
medium-paced
4.75
"‘What the hell is going on with our patients?’ asked Sally, my fellow junior doctor, as we worked our way through a bottle of wine. ‘You do realise more of them have died this month than lived?’"
I've read a lot of medical memoirs and this is the best of the lot. Clarke frames everything intelligently and coherently, but doesn't lose the sense of humanity that you expect from both this style of book and from doctors as a profession.
This book has made me smile, made me cry, and most of all, filled me with rage. The NHS is a wonderful thing, and after reading this, I'm going to fight a little harder for it when I can.
I've read a lot of medical memoirs and this is the best of the lot. Clarke frames everything intelligently and coherently, but doesn't lose the sense of humanity that you expect from both this style of book and from doctors as a profession.
This book has made me smile, made me cry, and most of all, filled me with rage. The NHS is a wonderful thing, and after reading this, I'm going to fight a little harder for it when I can.
hopeadinfinitum's review against another edition
5.0
Thought provoking, heartbreaking and real. And really interesting to look back on a time I lived through before I got into medicine from a medics perspective and to reflect on whether things have changed in the last four years.
Of course, things have changed, and it was interesting to contrast the rhetoric of 2016 with that of 2020 - a time when every nhs worker is called ‘essential’ and a ‘hero’ despite ongoing staffing and funding issues.
Of course, things have changed, and it was interesting to contrast the rhetoric of 2016 with that of 2020 - a time when every nhs worker is called ‘essential’ and a ‘hero’ despite ongoing staffing and funding issues.
lewis_fishman's review against another edition
5.0
In the words of Stormzy, "Fuck the government, and Fuck Boris!" The NHS, although not ever in use to me, is of utmost importance to the people of the UK, and the current and ongoing campaign by Tory governments to destroy it needs to be stopped.
the_bookish_hungarian's review against another edition
challenging
dark
informative
inspiring
reflective
sad
tense
slow-paced
2.0
bookwormjoshua's review against another edition
challenging
emotional
hopeful
informative
reflective
sad
slow-paced
3.75