A Spectator Book of the Year An Observer, New Statesman, Financial
Times, Irish Times and Scotsman 2021 Non-Fiction Highlight
'Compassionate, beautifully written .. will only grow in importance
and interest as the years go by' Jenny Colgan, Spectator 'Searing
yet beautiful ... less a hot take that an astute manifesto for what
matters most in life, as well as in medicine.' Rachel Clarke,
author of Breathtaking: Inside the NHS in a Time of Pandemic and
Your Life in My Hands 'Well written, often entertaining and
occasionally deeply moving; an unmissable account of a year we will
all try too hard to forget.' The Times 'Inspiring. I can't
recommend it too strongly. You will learn a lot from it, and you
will find much more that is encouraging.' Allan Massie, Scotsman
Intensive Care is about how coronavirus emerged, spread across the
world and changed all of our lives forever. But it's not, perhaps,
the story you expect. Gavin Francis is a GP who works in both urban
and rural communities, splitting his time between Edinburgh and the
islands of Orkney. When the pandemic arrived in our society he saw
how it affected every walk of life: the anxious teenager, the
isolated care home resident, the struggling furloughed worker and
homeless ex-prisoner, all united by their vulnerability in the face
of a global disaster. And he saw how the true cost of the virus was
measured not just in infections, or deaths, or ITU beds, but in the
consequences of the measures taken against it. In this deeply
personal account of eighteen months spent caring for a society in
crisis, Francis will take you from rural village streets to local
clinics and communal city stairways. And in telling this story, he
reveals others: of loneliness and hope, illness and recovery, and
of what we can achieve when we care for each other.
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