The Language of Kindness A Nurses Story by Christie Watson
Brand: Tim Duggan Books
Product Description
1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER A moving lyrical beautifullywritten portrait of a nurse and the lives she has touched Christie Watson spent twenty years as a nurse and in this intimate poignant and remarkably powerful book she opens the doors of the hospital and shares its secrets. She takes us by her side down hospital corridors to visit the wards and meet her unforgettable patients. In the neonatal unit premature babies fight for their lives hovering at the very edge of survival like tiny Emmanuel wrapped up in a sandwich bag. On the cancer wards the nurses administer chemotherapy and long after the medicine stops working something more importantwhich Watson learns to recognize when her own father is dying of cancer. In the pediatric intensive care unit the nurses wash the hair of a little girl to remove the smell of smoke from the house fire. The emergency room is overcrowded as ever with waves of alcohol and drug addicted patients as well as patients like Betty a widow suffering chest pain frail and alone. And the stories of the geriatric wardGladys and older patients like hershow the plight of the most vulnerable members of our society. Through the smallest of actions nurses provide vital care and kindness. All of us will experience illness in our lifetime and we will all depend on the support and dignity that nurses offer us yet the women and men who form the vanguard of our health care remain unsung. In this age of fear hate and division Christie Watson has written a book that reminds us of all that we share and of the urgency of compassion. show more
Condition : New
Author : Christie Watson
Weight : 358
Publisher : Tim Duggan Books
Language : English
EAN : 9781524761646
ISBN10 : 1524761648
Format : Paperback
Date of Publication : 20200310
Place of Publication : United States
Pagination : NA
Dimensions : 131 X 203 X 20mm