Rachel Clarke (author) Hardback. Author End-of-life stories from a palliative care doctor. I am surrounded by human beings at their finest. It is one thing for a doctor, in an almost shamanic role, to tend to the dying and witness the grief of those they leave behind, and quite another to be a family member losing your beloved. She is then drawn into the world of palliative care, and goes to work in a hospice, marvelling at the compassionate care given to end-of-life patients. In this haunting parable of the American West, a young woman faces the violent past of her remote Montana valley. ‧ Add to Cart. “I use my training and skills,” she writes, “specifically to help people with a terminal illness live what remains of their lives as fully as possible, and to die with dignity and comfort....Rarely, if ever, does a week go by in which all of my patients survive.” In this fascinating and often moving narrative, which features sometimes graphic details, Clarke gives readers an inside view into the life of the terminally ill and those who attend to them in hospice. [ (are children usually the genuine sole intellectual authors and curators of those delightful drawings and words we see proudly pinned on the walls of schools and children’s hospitals?). Nothing prepares you for it. In another memory of an Easter Sunday at the hospice, the day-centre patients have made surprise chocolate nests for the staff: I was reminded, yet again that a terminal diagnosis is not a sentence, but the beginning of a process that may take years to unfold, containing love, hope, generosity and kindness, alongside the inevitable sorrow and loss. Rachel Clarke Some of the most entertaining moments are encapsulated in dishy free-form anecdotes sandwiched between tales of music career honors, personal triumphs and hardships, and health problems. This is a semi-autobiographical insight into the world of palliative care and the process of dying. SELF-HELP. We know we should address them all proactively, it is just that the admin involved is, frankly, tiresome.” Only 4% of the population have had the foresight to prepare an “advanced directive” detailing how they’d like to be treated or left in peace should they become critically ill; Clarke would like to see that number increase. by BookBrowse seeks out and recommends the best in contemporary fiction and nonfiction—books that not only engage and entertain but also deepen our understanding of ourselves and the world around us. As a non-medic I found all of 1/ & 2/ very new and interesting. This is Rachel Clarke's second book, as well-written as her first one, Your Life in My Hands. A medic’s heartbreaking personal account of the loss of her father, and of witnessing the courage of the critically ill. Part-way through this memoir of hospice medicine and living with loss, Rachel Clarke lists a few troubling ideas she prefers to avoid thinking about: global warming, far-right populism, email overload, menopause, declining … . The author also offers appreciative commentary on Marilyn Monroe, Whitney Houston, and Aretha Franklin (“my high bar and North Star, a masterful musician and mind-bogglingly gifted singer who wouldn’t let one genre confine or define her”). An enthralling epic about two trailblazing female doctors in 19th century New York. She came to specialize in palliative medicine because it is the one specialty in which the quality, not quantity of life truly matters. Once, though, around this time, Dad told me a story that made death – perhaps for the first time in my life – feel unnervingly close to home. She was also taller than all the other girls at her boarding school. If you have any thoughts or opinions on Talkabout please get in touch at talkabout@mariecurie.org.uk. We’d love your help. Clear, informative and deeply moving, written from her perspective as a palliative care doctor working in a hospice, and including her own grief at the death of her father from cancer. This such an important book. After a downward spiral into “drinking, drugging, and purging,” Doyle found sobriety and the authentic self she’d been suppressing. We’re glad you found a book that interests you!
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