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Your Life In My Hands - a Junior Doctor's Story
From the Winner of the 2025 Women's Prize for Non-Fiction
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This extraordinary memoir offers a glimpse into a life spent between the operating room and the bedside, the mortuary and the doctors' mess, telling powerful truths about today's NHS frontline.
This extraordinary memoir offers a glimpse into a life spent between the operating room and the bedside, the mortuary and the doctors' mess, telling powerful truths about today's NHS frontline.
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FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF DEAR LIFE
'I am a junior doctor. It is 4 a.m. I have run arrest calls, treated life-threatening bleeding, held the hand of a young woman dying of cancer, scuttled down miles of dim corridors wanting to sob with sheer exhaustion, forgotten to eat, forgotten to drink, drawn on every fibre of strength that I possess to keep my patients safe from harm.'
How does it feel to be spat out of medical school into a world of pain, loss, and trauma that you feel wholly ill-equipped to handle? To be a medical novice who makes decisions whichβif you get them wrongβmight forever alter, or end, a person's life?
In Your Life in My Hands, television journalist turned junior doctor Rachel Clarke captures the extraordinary realities of life on the NHS frontline. During the historic junior doctor strikes of 2016, Rachel was at the forefront of the campaign against the government's imposed contract upon young doctors. Her heartfelt, deeply personal account of life as a junior doctor in today's NHS is both a powerful polemic on the degradation of Britain's most vital public institution and a love letter of optimism and hope to that same health service.
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Your Life In My Hands by Rachel Clarke offers an emotive and insightful look into the struggles faced by a junior doctor in the NHS. The book is praised for its compelling narrative, blending journalism with personal experience to highlight the human cost of systemic issues within the healthcare system. Critics commend Clarke's compassionate and honest portrayal, urging it as essential reading for those seeking to understand the challenges and dedication within the NHS.
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ISBN: 9781789463651
Publisher: John Blake Publishing Ltd
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 20 August 2020
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: John Blake Publishing Ltd
Audience: General / adult
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Spine width: 20.0mm
Width: 129.0mm
Height: 198.0mm
Weight: 242g
Pages: 320
About the Author
Before going to medical school, Dr Rachel Clarke was a television journalist and documentary maker. She now specialises in palliative medicine, caring deeply about helping patients live the end of their lives as fully and richly as possible - and in thepower of human stories to build empathy and inspire change.
Her first book, the Sunday Times bestselling YOUR LIFE IN MY HANDS, reveals what life is like for a junior doctor on the NHS frontline. Her memoir DEAR LIFE (Little, Brown, Jan 2020) is based on her work in a hospice. It explores love, loss, grief, dying and what really matters at the end of life.
Rachel has written for the Guardian, Sunday Times, New York Times, Independent,Telegraph, Prospect, BMJ, NEJM and Lancet. She has appeared on BBC Radio 4 Today, BBC Newsnight, Channel 4 News, BBC Woman's Hour, ITV News and SkyNews, among others.
She lives in Oxfordshire with her husband and two children.
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