{"product_id":"these-truths-by-jill-lepore-9781324130765","title":"These Truths","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThese Truths\u003c\/em\u003e invites us to peer into the space between health and illness, life and death, through the voices of the people who work on medicine's frontlines: doctors, nurses, EMTs, therapists, and more. In raw and revealing essays, stories, and poems, they share what it's like to deal with difficult patients, life-changing diagnoses, private doubts, painful failures, and the victories that keep them going.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBy turns conversational, spare, urgent, poetic, plain-spoken, heart-rending, and heart-mending, each piece offers a glimpse into the extraordinary daily realities of those charged with taking care of us at our most vulnerable.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eA doctor shares the do-or-die pep talk she gives herself while performing a life-saving procedure.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eA nurse wrestles with caring for a woman accused of murder.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eA neurologist recalls how learning the art of pole dancing helped her through residency.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eA GI fellow serves us an unorthodox \"cure\" for an ER regular with a dangerous love for fajitas.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eA surgeon-poet imagines inviting Death over for tea.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAnger, shame, panic, loneliness, love, hate, wonder, joy: They're all part of a day's work. As the authors of each piece unpack the highs and lows of their vocation, they teach us what it means to empathise deeply, to live fully, and to be human.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47650596651244,"sku":"9781324130765","price":62.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781324130765-these-truths.jpg?v=1779329045","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/these-truths-by-jill-lepore-9781324130765","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}