Everything Is True A Junior Doctor's Story of Life, Death and Grief in a Time of Pandemic

From the frontlines of the NHS, the story of a junior doctor's love, loss and grief through the Covid-19 crisis'An extraordinary writer … Beautiful, heartbreaking, brilliant, furious and oh-so-honest - an amazing read' Kate Mosse 2020, junior doctor Roopa Farooki lost her sister to cancer. But just weeks later, she found herself plunged into another kind of crisis, fighting on the frontline of the battle taking place in her hospital, and in hospitals across the country. Everything is True is the story of Roopa's first forty days of the Covid-19 crisis from the frontlines of A&E and the acute medical wards, as struggling through her grief, she battles for her patients' and colleagues' survival. Working thirteen-hour shifts, she returns home each evening to write through her exhaustion, chronicling the devastating losses and slowly eroding dehumanisation happening in real time on the ward. At once an unflinching insider's account of medicine in the time of coronavirus, and the devastating story of a sister's grief, Everything is True is an exhilarating memoir of holding on to that which makes us human against insurmountable odds.

ISBN:	9781526633392
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)
Imprint:	Bloomsbury
Published date:	20 Jan 2022
DEWEY:	614.5924140092
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Number of pages:	xviii, 221
Weight:	352g
Height:	308mm
Width:	254mm
Spine width:	25mm

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