EAN: 9781408713778

RACHEL CLARKE - GEBRAUCHT BREATHTAKING INSIDE T...

When the once-in-a-century pandemic struck  it didn't matter that it was predicted and expected
- nor even that we had watched it before  playing out in multiplexes over popcorn. We ambled 
half-asleep  into disaster. In the first three months of 2020  perplexity drifted into mild
concern that suddenly sheered into panic. Economies nose-dived. Schools workplaces closed.
Populations hid inside their homes. Whole societies shut down. In most people's living memory 
no crisis had caused such global upheaval so swiftly and so comprehensively. The scale and pace
of the pandemic were stunning. As a palliative care doctor  Rachel Clarke found herself
spending less time in the hospice and more in the hospital. Unable to convey the intensity of
her days on the wards to friends and family  by night  she wrote about what she and her
colleagues were going through. Breathtaking is her inside story of how the health service
responded. But when she looked back over her writing  she found that what she had thought was
an unrelenting stream of death and darkness was in fact illuminated by pinpricks of light. The
curtailing of human contact  it seemed  was a reminder of precisely how precious it was  and
just how far a little of it could go. Breathtaking depicts life  death  hope  fear  medicine at
its most impotent and also at its finest  the courage of patients in enormous adversity  the
stress of being torn between helping those patients and endangering your spouse and children 
the long fretful nights ruminating over whether the PPE you wear fits the science or the size
of the government stockpile. Faltering  fumbling  tenacious  undaunted  this is medicine in the
time of coronavirus.

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