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Life Support - Diary of an ICU Doctor on the Frontline of the Covid Crisis (Hardcover)
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Life Support - Diary of an ICU Doctor on the Frontline of the Covid Crisis (Hardcover)
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Price R277
Discovery Miles 2 770
You Save R73 (21%)
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AN OBSERVER PICK FOR NONFICTION TO LOOK OUT FOR IN 2021 'Deeply
affecting - a personal memoir that grips, harrows, inspires and,
ultimately, uplifts with its vein of deep humanity' Philippe Sands
'One of the doctors with the most hands-on experience of Covid in
the country' Edward Docx, New Statesman A powerful, moving account
of an intensive care doctor's life on the frontline of the Covid-19
pandemic As a doctor running the intensive care unit at one of
London's top hospitals, Jim Down has spent his life working as
healthcare's last resort, where the unexpected is always around the
corner, and life and death decisions are an everyday occurrence.
But nothing had prepared Jim and his team for the events of spring
2020, when the Covid-19 pandemic descended. In Life Support, he
tells the extraordinary month-by-month story of how as the nation
came to a standstill, he and his colleagues donned PPE, received an
unprecedented influx of patients, transformed their hospital and
took on the biggest challenge in the history of the NHS. The
pandemic raised difficult questions for Jim: how do you fight a new
disease? How do you go home at night to your wife and young
children when you've spent all day around highly infectious
patients? How do you tell a mother that her healthy young son has
died, only days after falling ill? With warmth, honesty and humour,
this book is a gripping, moving testament to the everyday heroism
of the NHS staff in a global crisis, and an unforgettable insight
into what was really happening in the wards as we clapped on our
doorsteps.
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