Dear Life: A Doctor's Story of Love, Loss and Consolation
Autor Rachel Clarkeen Limba Engleză Paperback – 3 sep 2020
Imagineați-vă o seară obișnuită de gardă într-un ospiciu, unde liniștea holurilor este întreruptă doar de șoaptele celor care își iau rămas-bun. Pentru Dr. Rachel Clarke, moartea nu este un inamic abstract, ci o prezență cotidiană pe care o gestionează cu o blândețe rară. Însă în 2017, perspectiva sa profesională a fost zdruncinată de o veste personală devastatoare: tatăl ei, medic generalist și modelul ei de viață, a fost diagnosticat cu cancer în fază terminală. În acel moment, bariera dintre medic și aparținător s-a prăbușit, forțând-o să aplice propriile lecții despre consolare în cel mai intim și dureros mod posibil.
Dear Life nu este un manual medical rece, ci o scrisoare de dragoste față de umanitate, scrisă cu precizia unui fost jurnalist de investigație și empatia unui medic de paliație. Considerăm că forța acestui volum rezidă în capacitatea autoarei de a găsi lumină acolo unde majoritatea oamenilor văd doar întuneric. Clarke demonstrează că un ospiciu este, paradoxal, un loc plin de viață, unde gesturile mici de bunătate și conexiunea umană capătă o intensitate extraordinară. Stilul narativ este cinematic și profund onest, evitând sentimentalismul facil în favoarea unei clarități emoționale care te face să prețuiești prezentul.
Pe același raft cu With the End in Mind de Kathryn Mannix, dar cu un accent mai pronunțat pe vulnerabilitatea personală a medicului care devine pacient prin procură, Dear Life completează viziunea autoarei începută în Your Life In My Hands - a Junior Doctor's Story. Dacă în lucrările anterioare sau în Breathtaking se concentra pe sistemul medical și crizele sale, aici Clarke coboară în profunzimile sufletului, oferind o perspectivă rară asupra modului în care ne putem păstra demnitatea până la final. Recomandăm această lectură ca pe o meditație necesară despre ce înseamnă să trăiești cu adevărat, având conștiința finitudinii.
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Specificații
ISBN-10: 0349143935
Pagini: 320
Dimensiuni: 126 x 196 x 24 mm
Greutate: 0.26 kg
Editura: Little Brown
Colecția Abacus
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
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Descriere
Shortlisted for the Costa Biography Award'What a remarkable book this is; tender, funny, brave, heartfelt, radiant with love and life. It brought me often to laughter and - several times - to tears. It sings with joy and kindness' Robert Macfarlane From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Your Life in My Hands comes this vibrant, tender and deeply personal memoir that finds light and love in the darkest of places.
As a specialist in palliative medicine, Dr Rachel Clarke chooses to inhabit a place many people would find too tragic to contemplate. Every day she tries to bring care and comfort to those reaching the end of their lives and to help make dying more bearable. Rachel's training was put to the test in 2017 when her beloved GP father was diagnosed with terminal cancer.
She learned that nothing - even the best palliative care - can sugar-coat the pain of losing someone you love. And yet, she argues, in a hospice there is more of what matters in life - more love, more strength, more kindness, more joy, more tenderness, more grace, more compassion - than you could ever imagine. For if there is a difference between people who know they are dying and the rest of us, it is simply this: that the terminally ill know their time is running out, while we live as though we have all the time in the world.
Dear Life is a book about the vital importance of human connection, by the doctor we would all want by our sides at a time of crisis. It is a love letter - to a father, to a profession, to life itself.
Recenzii
What a remarkable book this is; tender, funny, brave, heartfelt, radiant with love and life. It sings with joy and kindness
A truly wonderful book. Read it
A truly beautiful book about death and life and the price of love. Told by a doctor, with compassion and wisdom. I cried, but they were warm, comforting tears. It made me think about stuff I fear in a new and better way
Moving, thought-provoking and so very important. I'm immeasurably grateful to have read it, and it will stay with me. In death, we learn about life
A touching and profound meditation on what it means to be human . . . it is a remarkable book
Dear Life names the tension between love and risk that gives life its sweetness. It takes readers to the edge of life in supportive, wise company
Heart-wrenchingly tender
She writes with a tender, lyrical beauty
Her words are brimful of love, grace and kindness
A magnificent, tender book
Moving . . . an honest account from the front line of death
An enthralling and deeply affecting book . . . It is [the] blend of the personal and professional that makes Dear Life so special
Honest, clear-sighted and immensely wise, Clarke's book is laced with loss, yet raises a jubilant toast to life
A heartbreaking, exhilarating read
Arguably the most remarkable book of the year
An NHS doctor interweaves heartwarming stories of palliative care for patients in a hospice with memories of her beloved GP father
Rachel Clarke weaves together an account of her training as a doctor who came to specialise in palliative care, the stories of her patients, and her father's death in Dear Life. I read it while coming to terms with the death of a family friend, and found it full of honesty and tender wisdom about life and the process of dying. It managed the brilliant and paradoxical feat of helping you love life a little more and fear death a little less
This astonishing book by Dr Clarke will make you re-evaluate your own life and priorities. This is a deeply moving read
Compassionate, heartfelt and deeply life-affirming
'Her words are brimful of love, grace and kindness' Guardian
'She writes with a tender, lyrical beauty' Sunday Times
A deeply personal memoir that finds light and love in the darkest of places.
As a specialist in palliative medicine, Dr Rachel Clarke chooses to inhabit a place many people would find too tragic to contemplate. Every day she tries to bring care and comfort to those reaching the end of their lives and to help make dying more bearable.
Rachel's training was put to the test in 2017 when her beloved GP father was diagnosed with terminal cancer. She learned that nothing - even the best palliative care - can sugar-coat the pain of losing someone you love.
And yet, she argues, in a hospice there is more of what matters in life - more love, more strength, more kindness, more joy, more tenderness, more grace, more compassion - than you could ever imagine. For if there is a difference between people who know they are dying and the rest of us, it is simply this: that the terminally ill know their time is running out, while we live as though we have all the time in the world.
Dear Life is a book about the vital importance of human connection, by the doctor we would all want by our sides at a time of crisis. It is a love letter - to a father, to a profession, to life itself.