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ASE Book of the Year 2024 Shortlist
We are delighted to announce the shortlists for ASE’s Book of the Year 2024. As with previous years, we have had lots of a lovely submissions for both our Primary and Secondary categories and it been a tough choice for our reviewers. We want to thank all those who submitted publications and the authors and illustrators for all their hard work in producing some very high-quality books. Along Came a... Burp! By Saskia Gwinn, Illustrated by Paula Bowles Along Came a...
If we see it, we can be it: a diverse representation of doctors in children's books
The books we read as children are the stories that make us what we are. These are the books that shape our identities, inspire our journeys, and evoke our ambitions. An influential lecturer during my time in medical school suggested that one of the best things anyone can do for a child's long-term physical and mental health, is read to them regularly. This article is available free of charge.
What do you see when you look at me? Narratives of visible disease
How do negative media representations of visible disease affect the lived experience of those suffering from the conditions? Since antiquity, visible diseases with cutaneous signs, such as leprosy, have been embedded in emotive story-telling, from sources as influential as the Bible to Oscar winning cinema. In the 1959 film Ben-Hur, leprosy was shown as a punishment of the unfortunate and the forsaken, requiring miraculous intervention.
Under the Knife by Dr Liz O’Riordan review - cancer from both sides
Liz O’Riordan is a consultant breast surgeon who was forced to retire from practice six years ago after her own breast cancer diagnosis. Like many, I knew her story, having followed her on social media since my own sister passed away from breast cancer. Online, she comes across as both candid and joyful, sharing adventures, advice and pictures of her bright handmade dresses. I had assumed her memoir would be the straightforward tale of a doctor turned patient.
âWe can barely breathe.â How did Britainâs treasured NHS get so sick?
Iâm writing this towards midnight, having just finished a set of four 13-hour shifts in my small, coastal hospitalâs Accident & Emergency (A&E) department. Itâs hard to describe the helplessness we feel, as doctors, every time we walk through the emergency waiting room, packed with patients, knowing we can only review and treat one person at a time.
Opinion: 'We can barely breathe.' How did Britain's treasured NHS get so sick?
A baby boy was born with a single eye on his forehead and without a nose in Egypt. A rare baby boy with a single eye on his forehead was born in a private hospital in El Senbellawein in Egypt because of a rare birth issue called cyclopia. Babies with this condition often have only one eye, a missing nose, and other physical issues due to poor development when in their mother’s womb.
Opinion: 'We can barely breathe.' How did Britain's treasured NHS get so sick? Original
Editor’s Note: Dr. Roopa Farooki is an Internal Medicine Doctor for the NHS in South East England. She is the author of “Everything is True: A Junior Doctor’s Story of Life, Death and Grief,” on the first 40 days of the Covid-19 pandemic. The views expressed in this commentary are her own. Read more opinion on CNN. CNN — I’m writing this towards midnight, having just finished a set of four 13-hour shifts in my small, coastal hospital’s Accident & Emergency (A&E) department.
The history lesson
As a literary writer turned medic, I have been inevitably drawn to my patient's stories. Every patient tells a story, and sometimes it is written in their bodies when they cannot quite find the words. We all learn in medical school that history-taking is the vital first step in a doctor–patient relationship. It is a social transaction. Physicians take the history, while we give our attention and care in return.
A junior doctor's account of working on the frontline during the height of the pandemic
A junior doctor's account of working on the frontline during the height of the pandemic Episode Summary In early 2020, junior doctor Roopa Farooki lost her sister to cancer. Weeks later she found herself working on the frontline of the pandemic, covering the acute medical ward in an A&E department at a hospital in the south-east of England. Roopa joins Matthew to offer a powerful and evocative account of this time and reveals what it was like battling Covid whilst also battling grief and loss.
A junior doctor's account of working on the frontline during the height of the pandemic on Apple Podcasts
35 min In early 2020, junior doctor Roopa Farooki lost her sister to cancer. Weeks later she found herself working on the frontline of the pandemic, covering the acute medical ward in an A&E department at a hospital in the south-east of England. Roopa joins Matthew to offer a powerful and evocative account of this time and reveals what it was like battling Covid whilst also battling grief and loss. 35 min
Reading Resolutions: Important Books To Read This Year
Millie Walton picks seven titles to add to your must-read list for 2022. Up your reading game this year with some of the most important non-fiction books to read including essay collections, memoirs, and manifestos on everything from love, music, and nature to gender, race, and feminism.
Reading Resolutions: Important Books To Read This Year (Citizen Femme)
Millie Walton picks seven titles to add to your must-read list for 2022. Up your reading game this year with some of the most important non-fiction books to read including essay collections, memoirs, and manifestos on everything from love, music, and nature to gender, race, and feminism.
New and Recommended: Biography
Our pick of the most exciting new memoirs and biographies. From the publisher: A crystalline, inventive account of loss from a thrilling young literary talent – and a journey through grief’s destructive and creative possibilities.‘One of the finest accounts of the mysterious workings of… From the publisher: ‘A rollicking cultural adventure…Fascinating and true.
What it's really like to be a junior doctor
The clapping may have stopped, but for doctors like Roopa Farooki emergency A&E calls, ward rounds and witnessing life and death continue. Here she shares her experience during her first year as a junior doctor... 'I’d spent four years training in medicine, commuting three hours daily from the Kent coast to medical school in London, with all the stress and pressure that put on my husband and four children. All the guilt of being absent for the pick-ups and drop-offs.
Boek | Mijn halve ik - Roopa Farooki
Verzet je niet langer en kom naar huis. Dit zijn de woorden die Aruna van het ene op het andere moment doen besluiten haar comfortabele leventje en lieve man in Londen achter zich te laten. Ze gaat terug naar Singapore, de plek die ze eerder juist ontvluchtte. Daar ontmoet ze haar jeugdvriend en ex-geliefde Jazz, die altijd op haar is blijven wachten.
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