Seven Signs of Life

Stories from an Intensive Care Doctor

Aoife Abbey

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Vintage
03 March 2020

Memoirs; Psychology: emotions; Doctor patient relationship

An insightful, tender and inspiring memoir that explores the emotional side of a doctor's working life.

An insightful, tender and inspiring memoir that explores the reality of life on the NHS front line.

'Brilliant, compelling... A hugely life-affirming book' Mail on Sunday

Grief. Anger. Joy. Fear. Distraction. Disgust. Hope.

All emotions we expect to encounter over our lifetime. But what if this was every day? And what if your ability to manage them was the difference between life and death?

For Aoife Abbey, a doctor in intensive care, these experiences are part of the job - from grief when you make a potentially fatal mistake to joy when the ward unexpectedly breaks into song. Seven Signs of Life is Abbey's extraordinary account of what it means to be alive and how it feels to care for a living.

'Sensitive, honest and, yes, brave... Compulsive reading' Nigella Lawson

'Heartfelt, honest, illuminating and wise' Julia Samuel, author of This Too Shall Pass

By: Aoife Abbey
Imprint: Vintage
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 192mm, Width: 128mm, Spine: 26mm
Weight: 200g
ISBN: 9781784708474
ISBN 10: 178470847X
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 03 March 2020
Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , ELT Advanced , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Aoife Abbey grew up in Dublin, Ireland. She completed an undergraduate degree in Biological Sciences at the University of Edinburgh, before graduating in 2011 from medical school at Warwick University. She is a member of the Royal College of Physicians, Fellow of the Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine and council member at the Intensive Care Society UK. From September 2016, Aoife Abbey wrote a blog under the guise of the British Medical Association's 'Secret Doctor'. This is her first book.

Reviews for Seven Signs of Life: Stories from an Intensive Care Doctor

A brilliant, compelling account of what it is like to spend your days caring for patients on the fringe of existence ... A hugely life-affirming book. In between the many grim situations encountered on a daily basis, Abbey shows us moments of both joy and deep emotional connection -- Kathryn Hughes * Mail on Sunday * Heartfelt, honest, illuminating and wise - a wonderful book that I would urge everyone to read -- Julia Samuel, author of Grief Works A powerful glimpse into the high stakes of intensive care ...Above all this book is insightful about the grey areas where a doctor must go ... Some readers may be wearying of doctor memoirs. This one ... has a freshness and a sincerity that moved me. She is a gifted writer ... honest, compassionate, sensitive... [and] the doctor we would crave in our greatest need -- Melanie Reid * The Times * A thoughtful and necessary book about a world all of us might inhabit at some point in our lives -- Rosita Boland * Irish Times * A wonderfully frank assessment of the emotions shared - and unshared - between doctors and their patients ... Dr Abbey writes movingly ... and asks us all to think about what we want for ourselves at the end. * Daily Mail *