Life in the Balance: A Doctor’s Stories of Intensive Care - Hardcover

Down, Dr Jim

 
9780241506387: Life in the Balance: A Doctor’s Stories of Intensive Care
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0241506387 ISBN 13: 9780241506387
Verlag: Viking, 2023

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'A remarkably honest memoir of a life spent pulling people back from death' - Adam Kay

In these stories, Dr Jim Down brings us to the very heart of the intensive care unit - the section of the hospital where the sickest patients are brought to be cared for until their condition improves. With honesty, humility and a streak of dark humour, Dr Down describes the quietly heroic work of doctors and nurses on the ICU, a place which sits at the cutting edge of medical technology and where a split-second decision can make the difference between life and death.

From headline-grabbing cases like that of Alexander Litvinenko, poisoned by Russian agents and admitted to Down's ward, to the appalling aftermath of a train crash, Life in the Balance offers an inside glimpse of intensive care medicine, its immense challenges, deleterious effects on doctors' mental health and enormous rewards. Its profundity will make you reconsider the fragility of life and reframe your understanding of what it means to care.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Dr Jim Down is a consultant in critical care and anaesthesia based in London. He chairs the ICU consultants' group, the department of anaesthesia weekly scientific meetings and the UCLH Trust guideline committee. During the Covid-19 pandemic he worked on UCLH's busy ICU ward, and was interviewed by the BBC for a groundbreaking report depicting medics on the frontline. His account of that period, Life Support, was published in 2021 and his second book, Life in the Balance, was published in 2023.

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Verlag
Viking
Erscheinungsdatum
2023
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0241506387
ISBN 13 
9780241506387
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
256
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