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Your Life In My Hands - a junior doctor's story

By: Rachel Clarke
Narrated by: Cassie Layton
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These are the extraordinary realities of the NHS frontline. From the historic junior doctor strikes to the 'humanitarian crisis' declared by the Red Cross, the overstretched health service is on the precipice. This is a powerful polemic on its systematic degradation, and a letter of optimism to that same health service and those who support it. It captures with tenderness, a new doctor's experiences of an NHS at breaking point.©2017 Rachel Clarke (P)2017 W. F. Howes Ltd Medical Physics Professionals & Academics Science Thought-Provoking Health Medicine
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What a beautifully told story of true likeness of our current nhs. as a front line nurse I understand n have experienced the winter pressure beds... which to be totally honest can be very dangerous for patients. when the hospital is at capacity n yet ambulances are dropping of patient's, all so that A&E does not get charged a massive fine. This no longer safeguards the patients and defeats the purpose of NHS.

Beloved NHS

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The narrator is poorly chosen. Feels very 'poor poor me with my upper-middle class background and great education ...and two careers... Etc etc. Some of the stories felt fake.

Awful Narration

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Expected more stories of patients and how the juniors coped, it was rather more a political rant against the government, not saying that's not needed but it just wasn't what the book seemed to be about in the description.

Was over journalistic and political for me

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Rachel comes from a long line of doctors and it is very apparent that compassion and kindness is in her DNA. She also writes beautifully due in part to her first chosen profession. At first I was taken back by the political bias of this story but all I can say now is ‘thank you Rachel’. Thank you for describing to us exactly what it is like to be a junior doctor and the results of all the political messing with our beloved NHS done by various governments, particularly this one.

This should be compulsory reading for the admin staff of the NHS and every member of parliament

A timely and well written book. Brilliant

Very Political

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I couldn't stop listening. Wonderfully touching and terrifying all at the same time. A brilliant book.

Gripping

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