Seven Signs of Life: Stories from an Intensive Care Doctor

Author:   Aoife Abbey
Publisher:   Vintage Publishing
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9781784708474


Pages:   288
Publication Date:   09 January 2020
Format:   Paperback
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Author:   Aoife Abbey
Publisher:   Vintage Publishing
Imprint:   Vintage
Dimensions:   Width: 12.80cm , Height: 2.60cm , Length: 19.20cm
Weight:   0.200kg
ISBN:  

9781784708474


ISBN 10:   178470847
Pages:   288
Publication Date:   09 January 2020
Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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A sensitive, honest, unsentimental and, yes, brave piece of writing that makes for compulsive reading -- NIGELLA LAWSON A brilliant, compelling account of what it is like to spend your days caring for patients on the fringe of existence ... A hugely life-affirming book. In between the many grim situations encountered on a daily basis, Abbey shows us moments of both joy and deep emotional connection -- Kathryn Hughes * Mail on Sunday * Heartfelt, honest, illuminating and wise - a wonderful book that I would urge everyone to read -- Julia Samuel, author of GRIEF WORKS A powerful glimpse into the high stakes of intensive care ...Above all this book is insightful about the grey areas where a doctor must go ... Some readers may be wearying of doctor memoirs. This one ... has a freshness and a sincerity that moved me. She is a gifted writer ... honest, compassionate, sensitive... [and] the doctor we would crave in our greatest need -- Melanie Reid * The Times * A thoughtful and necessary book about a world all of us might inhabit at some point in our lives -- Rosita Boland * Irish Times *


A brilliant, compelling account of what it is like to spend your days caring for patients on the fringe of existence ... A hugely life-affirming book. In between the many grim situations encountered on a daily basis, Abbey shows us moments of both joy and deep emotional connection -- Kathryn Hughes * Mail on Sunday * Heartfelt, honest, illuminating and wise - a wonderful book that I would urge everyone to read -- Julia Samuel, author of Grief Works A powerful glimpse into the high stakes of intensive care ...Above all this book is insightful about the grey areas where a doctor must go ... Some readers may be wearying of doctor memoirs. This one ... has a freshness and a sincerity that moved me. She is a gifted writer ... honest, compassionate, sensitive... [and] the doctor we would crave in our greatest need -- Melanie Reid * The Times * A thoughtful and necessary book about a world all of us might inhabit at some point in our lives -- Rosita Boland * Irish Times * A wonderfully frank assessment of the emotions shared - and unshared - between doctors and their patients ... Dr Abbey writes movingly ... and asks us all to think about what we want for ourselves at the end. * Daily Mail *


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Aoife Abbey grew up in Dublin, Ireland. She completed an undergraduate degree in Biological Sciences at the University of Edinburgh, before graduating in 2011 from medical school at Warwick University. She is a member of the Royal College of Physicians, Fellow of the Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine and council member at the Intensive Care Society UK. From September 2016, Aoife Abbey wrote a blog under the guise of the British Medical Association's 'Secret Doctor'. This is her first book.

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