Life in the balance : a doctor's stories of intensive care
Down, Jim2024
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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, this book offers an inside glimpse of intensive care medicine, its immense challenges, deleterious effects on doctors' mental health and enormous rewards.
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Author:
Down, Jim, author
Imprint:
UK : Penguin Books, 2024.
Collation:
241 pages ; 20 cm
Notes:
Originally published: UK: Viking, 2023.
ISBN:
9780241506394 (pbk. :)
Language:
English
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BRN:
5639491