By Rachel Clarke
This is an honest and thought provoking book by a compassionate young doctor who, already in training, questioned what she saw as the lack of empathy for the patient by some medical and teaching staff in the overworked environment of the NHS. She queried whether the overriding principle to save lives with sometimes painful and lengthy treatments is always appropriate. That she decided to specialise in palliative medicine and work in a hospice was not surprising.
8 CLA (Grieving, Bereavement, Death)
