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Breaking & Mending: A junior doctor’s stories of compassion & burnout de Joanna Cannon

Breaking & Mending: A junior doctor’s stories of compassion & burnout

Autor Joanna Cannon
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 2 iul 2020

Descoperim aici sunetul steril al holurilor de spital, dar și tăcerea grea care se așază după ce un medic rostește un cuvânt greșit ales. În Breaking & Mending, Joanna Cannon ne invită să pășim alături de ea prin saloane, nu din postura observatorului clinic, ci din cea a omului care învață, cu fiecare gardă, că medicina este la fel de mult despre empatie pe cât este despre fiziologie. Notăm cu interes cum autoarea reușește să transforme momentele de vulnerabilitate extremă — de la prima autopsie la veghea unui pacient aflat la final de drum — într-o pledoarie pentru umanizarea unei profesii adesea privite ca infailibilă.

Merită menționat că această incursiune în culisele sistemului medical britanic se distanțează de atmosfera ludică sau misterioasă din operele sale anterioare de beletristică, precum The Trouble with Goats and Sheep. Dacă în romanele sale Joanna Cannon folosea observația fină pentru a deconstrui viața de suburbie, aici își îndreaptă privirea spre interior, analizând mecanismul subtil al epuizării profesionale (burnout). Cine a apreciat portretul din Seven Signs of Life de Aoife Abbey va găsi aici aceeași profunzime biografică, aplicată însă unui context mai intim, unde accentul cade pe fragilitatea medicului în fața suferinței.

Stilul este unul visceral, compus din cadre scurte și intense, care refuză să ignore tabuul slăbiciunii în medicină. Joanna Cannon ne arată că un act de bunătate sau o conexiune umană autentică poate fi la fel de vitală ca repornirea unei inimi. Este o lectură despre reziliență și despre necesitatea urgentă de a avea grijă de cei care ne îngrijesc, scrisă cu o onestitate care dezarmează.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781788160582
ISBN-10: 1788160584
Pagini: 176
Dimensiuni: 124 x 194 x 16 mm
Greutate: 0.2 kg
Ediția:Main
Editura: Profile
Colecția Wellcome Collection
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

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Recomandăm această carte oricui dorește să înțeleagă realitatea din spatele halatului alb. Este o lectură esențială pentru studenții la medicină și profesioniștii din sistemul sanitar care se confruntă cu presiunea burnout-ului, dar și pentru cititorii pasionați de memorii care explorează condiția umană. Veți câștiga o perspectivă nouă asupra importanței sănătății mintale și a compasiunii în orice domeniu profesional solicitant.

Despre autor

Joanna Cannon este un nume consacrat în literatura contemporană britanică, fiind de profesie medic psihiatru, absolventă a Leicester Medical School. Această dublă identitate, de clinician și scriitor, îi oferă o capacitate unică de a observa și narata complexitatea psihicului uman. A debutat cu succesul internațional The Trouble with Goats and Sheep, urmat de alte titluri apreciate precum Three Things About Elsie. În prezent, locuiește în Peak District, unde își continuă activitatea literară, îmbinând rigoarea științifică cu o sensibilitate narativă aparte.

Notă biografică

Joanna Cannon is the author of the Sunday Times bestsellers, The Trouble with Goats and Sheep, which was published in fifteen languages, and Three Things About Elsie, longlisted for the Women's Prize. Her novels have sold over half a million copies in the UK alone. Her love of narrative had always drawn her to psychiatry, but it wasn't until her thirties that she decided to go to back to university to study medicine. Before specialising in psychiatry, she rotated through a series of hospital jobs, from A&E to palliative care.

Descriere scurtă

'One of the most beautiful books you will ever read' Kate MosseIn this powerful memoir, Joanna Cannon tells her story as a junior doctor in visceral, heart-rending snapshots. We walk with her through the wards, facing extraordinary and daunting moments: from attending her first post-mortem, sitting with a patient through their final moments, to learning the power of a well- or badly chosen word. These moments, and the small sustaining acts of kindness and connection that punctuate hospital life, teach her that emotional care and mental health can be just as critical as restoring a heartbeat.In a profession where weakness remains a taboo, this moving, beautifully written book brings to life the vivid, human stories of doctors and patients - and shows us why we need to take better care of those who care for us.

Recenzii

I tore through Breaking and Mending... frank, emotional and compassionate
One of the most beautiful books you will ever read
Joanna Cannon's powerful, moving memoir of her time as a junior doctor is so good.
Now a best-selling writer, Cannon's stories of her time as a junior doctor explore how humans can give each other hope and compassion in even the darkest of moments.
The story of the struggling NHS has been told in several excellent books recently, and this is among the best. We need to listen.
In Breaking and Mending, [Joanna Cannon] brings her literary talents to her previous career in a memoir brimming with her trademark compassion and psychological insight. ... What sets Cannon's book apart is not just its humanity and wisdom but the novelist's keen observational eye. Cannon is a chronicler both of the human condition and the quotidian details - the clothes, the tics, the sights, sounds, smells and ephemera - which speak to who we are.
Before she became a novelist, Cannon worked as a doctor. Here, she recalls her days on the wards in the most moving way.
This raw and emotional memoir ... is full of depth and insight, and made me so grateful to all those who work in healthcare.
Powerful, shocking and intimate all at the same time
I will be buying Breaking & Mending today and you should too
A deeply moving, thought-provoking memoir written with true compassion and intelligence
All doctors should read this - and patients too. Emotionally wise and beautifully written
Cannon is on her way to becoming a national treasure - no one does quirky, funny and soul-searing the way she does
There is so much compassion in this memoir, so much kindness and empathy. But there is also anger at the way the caring profession doesn't seem to care for those who work in it. It's a heartbreaking read but it ends on a hopeful note.
A book driven by kindness and hope. It's a rare view into a strange and challenging word.
Fascinating read
Breaking & Mending is one of the most moving, compelling books I've ever read
Has all the makings of a highly charged novel, complete with unsavoury characters: the registrar who abandons the newly qualified Cannon mid-shift to go on holiday, the consultant who shouts and spits on her during a meeting. And there is plenty of tragedy, as she writes frankly about how difficult she found it to maintain professional distance from her most heartbreaking cases. Ultimately, though, hers is a hopeful story ... this NHS memoir is well-paced and often beautifully told.
Wonderful
Breathtaking
There's an admirable ballsiness to Cannon. She whistleblows. She wears her heart on her sleeve. Plainly, she wants to nurture mental health in others and seeks to expose the stress, ridiculous workload and lack of pastoral care she experienced in medicine ... She writes lyrically, with a novelist's verve and colour
It is a breathtaking book ... Cannon's narrative skill here is subtle yet tremendous ... Cannon does language expertly, describing not only how to live, but why. I imagine she was the kind of doctor that surely all doctors should strive to be: human, honest, questioning, and (carefully) kind ... Joanna Cannon's story is beautiful. Here's to the wild cards.
Intimate, delicately constructed and as absorbing as it is arresting