Overview

Dr Heidi Edmundson is an Emergency Medicine consultant at a London hospital. Belly Full is a forthright and unflinching account of the ill-health of the NHS in general and Emergency Medicine services in particular - and a bold record of her own health crisis. It offers a candid view of what it is really like to work on the front line of the nation's health emergency, and the devastating implications for the well-being of our doctors and nurses. The book is also alive to the rewards of living, and to the commitment to a specialism that prizes the incandescent work of decision-making, risk and recovery - values that are at the heart of emergency medicine and, maybe, also at the heart of life.

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9781917000079

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‘Dr Heidi Edmundson gives a powerful testimony of the enmeshment of mind and body. Belly Full is a gripping tale of the moment, where we hide from our lives by keeping busy at work, where we we bury our fears and shame by distraction and self-deception. Going the extra mile at work is seen as virtuous; meanwhile our bodies are keeping the score of the consequences of our stress. Belly Full reads with the pace of a novel but hits harder from the knowledge that it is a true reflection of our burned-out world today.’ Bruce Daisley Sunday Times bestselling author

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Heidi Edmundson grew up on Northern Ireland's spectacular Causeway Coast. After attending Coleraine High School, she went to university in Dundee to study medicine and has worked as a doctor since 1994, predominantly for the NHS. She currently lives in North London where she has been a consultant in Emergency Medicine for over ten years. She is a passionate advocate for staff wellbeing and building positive workplace cultures. When the COVID pandemic began to take hold in Britain in March 2020, she experienced first-hand the impact of the deteriorating conditions in the NHS on her own health.

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