TY  - BOOK
AU  - Down,Jim
TI  - Life support: diary of an ICU doctor on the frontline of the covid crisis 
SN  - 9780241506325 (pbk.) :
AV  - R690 
U1  - 610.92 DOW 23
PY  - 2021///
CY  - UK
PB  - Penguin Books
KW  - Down, Jim.
KW  - Physicians
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - Critical care medicine
KW  - COVID-19 (Disease)
KW  - Health and Fitness
KW  - eflch
KW  - Health and Wellbeing
KW  - ukslc
KW  - Autobiography: science, technology & medicine
KW  - thema
KW  - Medicine: general issues
KW  - Intensive care medicine
N1  - Originally published: UK: Viking
N2  - As a doctor running the intensive care unit at one of London's top hospitals, Jim Down has spent his life working as healthcare's last resort, where the unexpected is always around the corner, and life and death decisions are an everyday occurrence. But nothing had prepared Jim and his team for the events of spring 2020, when the Covid-19 pandemic descended. He tells the extraordinary month-by-month story of how as the nation came to a standstill, he and his colleagues donned PPE, received an unprecedented influx of patients, transformed their hospital and ultimately faced down the biggest challenge in the history of the NHS. With warmth, honesty and humour, this book is a gripping, moving testament to the everyday heroism of the NHS staff in a global crisis, and an unforgettable insight into what was really happening in the wards as we clapped on our doorsteps
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