'A very special book filled with stories of survival, hope and
loss.' Adam Kay, author of This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of
a Junior Doctor '[Matt's] wit and compassion are everywhere in this
enlightening book.' The Sunday Times 'This book offers real insight
into life and death medicine.' Dr. Michael Mosley 'Compassionate
and moving... Morgan provides a rich array of stories and
characters. Alongside the cases studies, he details the development
of the medical practices and technology - from the iron lung to
ultrasound - that have helped make such life-saving procedures
possible.' The Observer 'This book is marvellous: buy it, share it,
recommend it.... We are fortunate to have dedicated, caring and
humble folks such as Doc Morgan on the Critical Care front line. We
are even better off when a writer can capture all that this
exciting, mad, glorious and even exasperating job means. If you
work in healthcare, know somebody that does, or simply inhabit a
body then this book is for you: in fact it's critical.' Peter
Brindley, Professor of Critical Care Medicine, Anesthesiology,
Medical Ethics University of Alberta 'Just wonderful. I love the
exploration of what it means to survive, at what cost and so on.
Such an important factor and it's a real problem with what we do.
An old surgeon once told me 'just because we can, doesn't mean we
should. Operating is the easiest thing in the world, not doing so
is incredibly challenging'. A lovely book.' Dr Nikki Stamp FRACS
Cardiothoracic and Transplant Surgeon and author of Can You Die of
a Broken Heart? 'An illuminating, compassionate insight into the
fascinating world of intensive care.' Leah Hazzard, author of Hard
Pushed Critical is an intelligent, compelling and profoundly
insightful journey into the world of intensive care medicine and
the lives of people who have forever been changed by it. Being
critically ill means one or more of your vital organs have failed -
this could be your lungs, your heart, your kidneys, gut or even
your brain. Starting with the first recognised case in which a
little girl was saved by intensive care in 1952 in Copenhagen, Matt
writes brilliantly about the fascinating history, practices and
technology in this newest of all the major medical specialties.
Matt guides us around the ICU by guiding us around the body and the
different organs, and in this way, we learn not only the stories of
many of the patients he's treated over the years, but also about
the various functions different parts of the body. He draws on his
time spent with real patients, on the brink of death, and explains
how he and his colleagues fight against the odds to help them live.
Happily many of his cases have happy endings, but Matt also writes
movingly about those cases which will always remain with him - the
cases where the mysteries of the body proved too hard to solve, or
diagnoses came too late or made no difference to the outcome.
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