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A review by joemkl
Your Life in My Hands: A Junior Doctor's Story by Rachel Clarke
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.