Read Your Life In My Hands--a Junior Doctor's Story Storyline:
'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 which - if you get them wrong - might forever alter, or end, a person's life?To toughen up the hard way, through repeated exposure to life-and-death situations, until you are finally a match for them?In this heartfelt, deeply personal account of life as a junior doctor in today's health service, former television journalist turned doctor, Rachel Clarke, captures the extraordinary realities of ordinary life on the NHS front line. From the...Pages of Your Life In My Hands--a Junior Doctor's Story :
