![]() And Rest and Be Thankful conveys all the drama, dread, stress and blissful relief of a working life in intensive paediatric care.Īs the small, frail bodies of their charges struggle against critical illness in the “spooky and claustrophobic” chambers where fragile lives hang by a thread (or a tube), nurse Laura and her colleagues become “cotton buds sucking up the sadness of others, we are saturated, we are saviours. Emma Glass still combines practice with writing, a richly gifted young novelist – the author, in 2018, of Peach – who works as a children’s nurse. And no department of hospital medicine hosts a front line denser in anguish, terror and last-ditch hope than the paediatric unit.ĭoctors have written honoured literature since ancient times nurse-writers have been a much rarer breed. Even in more normal times, however, frontline care throws crisis after crisis at staff forever just one tough shift away from exhaustion. ![]() ![]() ![]() The current pandemic means that the psychology of medical emergencies affects everyone. ![]()
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