The Resource Breathtaking, Rachel Clarke
Breathtaking, Rachel Clarke
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The item Breathtaking, Rachel Clarke represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Randwick City Library.
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- Summary
- When the once-in-a-century pandemic struck, it didn't matter that it was predicted and expected - nor even that we had watched it before, playing out in multiplexes over popcorn. We ambled, half-asleep, into disaster. In the first three months of 2020, perplexity drifted into mild concern that suddenly sheered into panic. Economies nose-dived. Schools workplaces closed. Populations hid inside their homes. Whole societies shut down. In most people's living memory, no crisis had caused such global upheaval so swiftly and so comprehensively. The scale and pace of the pandemic were stunning. As a palliative care doctor, Rachel Clarke found herself spending less time in the hospice and more in the hospital. Unable to convey the intensity of her days on the wards to friends and family, by night, she wrote about what she and her colleagues were going through. Breathtaking is her inside story of how the health service responded. But when she looked back over her writing, she found that what she had thought was an unrelenting stream of death and darkness was in fact illuminated by pinpricks of light. The curtailing of human contact, it seemed, was a reminder of precisely how precious it was, and just how far a little of it could go. Breathtaking depicts life, death, hope, fear, medicine at its most impotent and also at its finest, the courage of patients in enormous adversity, the stress of being torn between helping those patients and endangering your spouse and children, the long fretful nights ruminating over whether the PPE you wear fits the science or the size of the government stockpile. Faltering, fumbling, tenacious, undaunted, this is medicine in the time of corona virus
- Language
- eng
- Label
- Breathtaking
- Title
- Breathtaking
- Statement of responsibility
- Rachel Clarke
- Title variation
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- Breathtaking
- Breath taking
- Title variation remainder
- inside the NHS in a time of pandemic
- Subject
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- trueCOVID-19 (Disease) -- Social aspects
- Clarke, Rachel
- Clarke, Rachel -- Career in medicine
- Epidemics -- Health aspects
- Great Britain, National Health Service
- Great Britain, National Health Service -- Anecdotes
- COVID-19 (Disease) -- Great Britain -- Health aspects
- truePalliative treatment
- Physicians -- Great Britain -- Anecdotes
- Women physicians -- Great Britain -- Biography
- Medical care -- Great Britain -- Anecdotes
- COVID-19 (Disease) -- Great Britain -- Personal narratives
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- When the once-in-a-century pandemic struck, it didn't matter that it was predicted and expected - nor even that we had watched it before, playing out in multiplexes over popcorn. We ambled, half-asleep, into disaster. In the first three months of 2020, perplexity drifted into mild concern that suddenly sheered into panic. Economies nose-dived. Schools workplaces closed. Populations hid inside their homes. Whole societies shut down. In most people's living memory, no crisis had caused such global upheaval so swiftly and so comprehensively. The scale and pace of the pandemic were stunning. As a palliative care doctor, Rachel Clarke found herself spending less time in the hospice and more in the hospital. Unable to convey the intensity of her days on the wards to friends and family, by night, she wrote about what she and her colleagues were going through. Breathtaking is her inside story of how the health service responded. But when she looked back over her writing, she found that what she had thought was an unrelenting stream of death and darkness was in fact illuminated by pinpricks of light. The curtailing of human contact, it seemed, was a reminder of precisely how precious it was, and just how far a little of it could go. Breathtaking depicts life, death, hope, fear, medicine at its most impotent and also at its finest, the courage of patients in enormous adversity, the stress of being torn between helping those patients and endangering your spouse and children, the long fretful nights ruminating over whether the PPE you wear fits the science or the size of the government stockpile. Faltering, fumbling, tenacious, undaunted, this is medicine in the time of corona virus
- Biography type
- contains biographical information
- Cataloging source
- NJB
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Clarke, Rachel
- Dewey number
- 616.2414
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Clarke, Rachel
- Clarke, Rachel
- Clarke, Rachel
- Great Britain
- Great Britain
- Great Britain
- Women physicians
- Medical care
- COVID-19 (Disease)
- COVID-19 (Disease)
- Physicians
- COVID-19 (Disease)
- Epidemics
- Palliative treatment
- COVID-19 (Disease)
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- Breathtaking, Rachel Clarke
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 000068564245
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- 228 pages
- Isbn
- 9781408713778
- Isbn Type
- (paperback)
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1235722566
- Label
- Breathtaking, Rachel Clarke
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 000068564245
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- 228 pages
- Isbn
- 9781408713778
- Isbn Type
- (paperback)
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1235722566
Subject
- trueCOVID-19 (Disease) -- Social aspects
- Clarke, Rachel
- Clarke, Rachel -- Career in medicine
- Epidemics -- Health aspects
- Great Britain, National Health Service
- Great Britain, National Health Service -- Anecdotes
- COVID-19 (Disease) -- Great Britain -- Health aspects
- truePalliative treatment
- Physicians -- Great Britain -- Anecdotes
- Women physicians -- Great Britain -- Biography
- Medical care -- Great Britain -- Anecdotes
- COVID-19 (Disease) -- Great Britain -- Personal narratives
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