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Discover the profound and moving portrait of one doctor''s life and work in the NHS

''Wonderful - insightful and compassionate'' Dr Richard Shepherd, bestselling author of Unnatural Causes
________

They can''t teach you how to be a doctor at medical school . . .

As a junior doctor, Dr Tom Templeton learnt how to do his job from books, professors and other doctors and nurses. But the most important lessons - tolerance, kindness, resilience and bravery - he learnt from his patients.

Here, he shares the stories of just 34, and how they changed his life while he was helping theirs.

From a stillbirth to the old woman who lived a century, from the inhabitants of stately homes to the homeless, these stories whether heartwarming or heartbreaking, funny or tragic, are always inspiring and illuminating.

We are all patients, but discover for the first time how the doctors see us . . .
________

''An adm

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Wonderful - insightful and compassionate -- Dr Richard Shepherd, bestselling author of Unnatural Causes
An admirably told story * The Spectator *
Informative and personal, humbling and healing * Observer *

34 Patients

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      Publisher Penguin Random House Group
      Imprint Penguin Books Ltd
      Published 31 March 2022
      ISBN-13 9781405944670
      978-1405944670
      ISBN-10 1405944676
      Also in:
      Biography Autobiography: science, technology and medicine Memoirs Doctor / patient relationship

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Discover the profound and moving portrait of one doctor''s life and work in the NHS

      ''Wonderful - insightful and compassionate'' Dr Richard Shepherd, bestselling author of Unnatural Causes
      ________

      They can''t teach you how to be a doctor at medical school . . .

      As a junior doctor, Dr Tom Templeton learnt how to do his job from books, professors and other doctors and nurses. But the most important lessons - tolerance, kindness, resilience and bravery - he learnt from his patients.

      Here, he shares the stories of just 34, and how they changed his life while he was helping theirs.

      From a stillbirth to the old woman who lived a century, from the inhabitants of stately homes to the homeless, these stories whether heartwarming or heartbreaking, funny or tragic, are always inspiring and illuminating.

      We are all patients, but discover for the first time how the doctors see us . . .
      ________

      ''An adm

      Trade Review
      Wonderful - insightful and compassionate -- Dr Richard Shepherd, bestselling author of Unnatural Causes
      An admirably told story * The Spectator *
      Informative and personal, humbling and healing * Observer *

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