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Your Life in My Hands

By: Rachel Clarke
Narrated by: Cassie Layton
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About this listen

These are the extraordinary realities of the NHS front line. 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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Critic reviews

"There have been many books written by young doctors...but none comes close to Clarke's." ( Sunday Times)
"From the very heart of the NHS comes this brilliant insight into the continuing crisis in the health service. Rachel Clarke writes as the accomplished journalist she once was and as the leading junior doctor she now is - writing with humanity and compassion that at times reduced me to tears." (Jon Snow, Channel 4 News)
"A powerful account of life on the NHS frontline. If only Theresa May and Jeremy Hunt could see the passion behind the people in the NHS, they might stop treating them as the enemy, and understand that without them we don't have an NHS worth the name." (Alastair Campbell)
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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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