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Seven Signs of Life: Unforgettable Stories from an Intensive Care Doctor

by Aoife Abbey
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For Readers of Paul Kalanithi's​ When Breath Becomes Air, an Intensive Care Doctor Reveals How Everyday Emotions Are Taken to Extremes in the ICU
Dr. Aoife Abbey takes us beyond the medical perspective to see the humanity at work inside our hospitals through the eyes of doctors and nurses as they witness and experience the full spectrum of human emotion with every shift. It is their responsibility to mitigate the grief of a family in mourning, calm a patient about to die, and confront their own fear of failure when lives are on the line. Whether they're providing hospice care, tending to victims of car accidents or violent attacks, determining the correct treatment for someone displaying signs of a heart-attack or stroke, and managing staff, stress is a doctor's number one companion. Cycling through the whirlwind of emotion that accompanies every case isn't only exhausting—it can be fatal.
Told using seven key emotions—fear, grief, joy, distraction, anger, disgust, and hope—Seven Signs of Life opens the door, and heart, of the hectic life inside a hospital to reveal what it means to be alive and how it feels to care for others.

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    October 1, 2019

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      • ISBN: 9781948924832

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      • ISBN: 9781948924832
      • File size: 784 KB

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    • English

  • Reviews

    • Library Journal

      October 1, 2019

      Debut author Abbey (Royal Coll. of Physicians) chronicles her early years training to become an intensive care physician in the UK. This book is organized thematically around the "Seven Signs of Life"--fear, grief, joy, distraction, anger, disgust, and hope--perhaps playing on the concept of the seven deadly sins. Each chapter is based on a story of a patient, or something Abbey learned in the midst of her medical practice. The choice to organize the work around themes of human emotions allows readers to consider a particular aspect of medicine in relation to larger questions about how our emotions and dispositions shape our lives as well as decision-making in the medical field. As Abbey is based in the UK, some terms related to the National Health Service might be unfamiliar to U.S. readers. VERDICT While the prose is somewhat uneven--at times it soars and is lyrical, in other places it's a bit more pedestrian, those who enjoy works by Richard Selzer and Atul Gawande will find this an edifying read.--Aaron Klink, Duke Univ., Durham, NC

      Copyright 2019 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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