Dear Life by Dear Life Rachel Clarke

Dear Life by Dear Life Rachel Clarke

In Dear Life, palliative care specialist Dr. Rachel Clarke recounts her professional and personal journey to understand not the end of life, but life at its end.

Death was conspicuously absent during Rachel's medical training. Instead, her education focused entirely on learning to save lives, and was left wanting when it came to helping patients and their families face death. She came to specialize in palliative medicine because it is the one specialty in which the quality, not quantity of life truly matters.

In the same year she started to work in a hospice, Rachel was forced to face tragedy in her own life when her father was diagnosed with terminal cancer. He'd inspired her to become a doctor, and the stories he had told her as a child proved formative when it came to deciding what sort of medicine she would practice. But for all her professional exposure to dying, she remained a grieving daughter.

Dear Life follows how Rachel came to understand--as a child, as a doctor, as a human being--how best to help patients in the final stages of life, and what that might mean in practice.

RACHEL CLARKE is a British palliative care doctor. A former television journalist, she retrained as a doctor and is now well known in the UK as a commentator and advocate for the best possible standards for patients, doctors, nurses and other carers. Her specialism allows her to put into practice her passionate belief in helping patients at the end of life to experience the best possible quality of life. Clarke lives in Oxford with her husband and two children.

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ISBN 13	9781250764515
ISBN 10	1250764513
Title	Dear Life
Author	Dear Life Rachel Clarke
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	St Martin's Press
Year published	2020-09-01
Number of pages	336
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