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A review by mrs_char_baker
Your Life in My Hands: A Junior Doctor's Story by Rachel Clarke
2.0
If you are into politics, Question Time and Parliamentary debates, this book is for you! If you are looking to read a book about the work a Doctor does in the NHS, this isn't the right book.
I was really looking forward to reading this book, but the title is misleading. It is not really about the patients (though there a few brief stories) it is very political and I was really not expecting that.
The book is full of negativity and is the author's way of rambling on about working conditions in the NHS - bed crisis, staffing shortages and I quickly got fed up of Jeremy Hunt this, Jeremy Hunt that.
As a former Student Nurse, I have seen the issues first hand and I understand what the author is saying, but we have heard it all before in the news over the years. We don't need to read it.
The highlight of the book and what really summed it up for me was when the author asks her daughter if she would like to stay up to watch Mummy on the news. The daughters response is "No, Mummy is boring" This made me laugh out loud and totally summed the book up for me!
I was really looking forward to reading this book, but the title is misleading. It is not really about the patients (though there a few brief stories) it is very political and I was really not expecting that.
The book is full of negativity and is the author's way of rambling on about working conditions in the NHS - bed crisis, staffing shortages and I quickly got fed up of Jeremy Hunt this, Jeremy Hunt that.
As a former Student Nurse, I have seen the issues first hand and I understand what the author is saying, but we have heard it all before in the news over the years. We don't need to read it.
The highlight of the book and what really summed it up for me was when the author asks her daughter if she would like to stay up to watch Mummy on the news. The daughters response is "No, Mummy is boring" This made me laugh out loud and totally summed the book up for me!