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Your Life in My Hands
- A Junior Doctor's Story
- Narrated by: Cassie Layton
- Length: 7 hrs and 59 mins
- Categories: Biographies & Memoirs, Professionals & Academics
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- Jack C
- 31-07-19
Terrible narrator, patronising + devoid of humour
Firstly the narrator cannot pronounce words such as telephonist and Agence France Presse, amongst countless others. Her voice has an annoying patronising tone. The writer tries to paint herself as struggling to pay herself through med school, neglecting to be honest about being married to a fighter pilot at the time. This isn't a poor single woman modestly paying her way. She's the third generation of a well to do medical family with ample support and funds. That's fine but don't paint a picture that is different from the reality of a privileged public school girl, immersed in the medical world from birth, who was fortunate enough to have husband and family to support her to become a doctor after a brief career in journalism.
The book itself is disordered and starts off with a rant against Jeremy Hunt (perfectly understandable but it's an odd place to start). She's also in palliative care, so it's incredibly bleak and sad. And as so common with books by her generation, it's woefully humourless. She has moments which could have been more light-hearted, but it's all flat, forced and fails miserably to make the book easier to get through.
I would still recommend it's read by prospective UK doctors (it's very UK centric) rather than someone in the US or European systems.
A missed opportunity in terms of a book and audiobook.
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- S.A.M
- 29-03-18
Very Political
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
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- Gary Henderson
- 25-02-19
Dissapointed
Not what I was expecting. Three quarters of the book is political commentary - these things have to be said and people made aware of, but I personally would expect to read this in a column for a newspaper not in an audiobook.
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- Patsy
- 08-01-18
scary
A brave, honest, heart felt view from the front line of the NHS . An informative insight in to how those in power have little regard for our well being and will lie and spin just to fulfill the lie. Life is cheap. The NHS is in crisis and beyond . As a nation we need to make sure we don't lose it and end up being asked for our credit cards before we are treated.
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- Fartuun
- 02-01-18
Beloved NHS
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.
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- Shelley
- 04-04-18
Terrible narration
The narrator ruins this for me. Makes the author sound very sorry for herself and martyr like. Really over dramatised characters each with different terrible accents. Throws you a bit. Actual book was quite good. Could have enjoyed it.
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- tfdodo
- 14-02-20
unremitting polemic on nhs underfunding...
with occasional interludes on junior doctoring. Would have been 5 star if advertised as such, but if you want to hear doctoring stories you're in for very long waits with few rewards, sorry.
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- Vaan
- 06-02-20
Politics and the NHS
I read Adam Kay's experiences as a junior doctor and this is perhaps less funny but more hard hitting. We need to hold our politicians to account over their lies and obfuscation regarding the NHS.
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- ScandiMama
- 11-07-19
Awful Narration
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.
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- Charlotte L.
- 26-06-19
Gripping
I couldn't stop listening. Wonderfully touching and terrifying all at the same time. A brilliant book.
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