Your Life In My Hands - a Junior Doctor's Story: From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Dear Life Paperback – Import, 20 August 2020

This was fantastic read.I am proud CanadianWho appreciates a health care system whereHow much money you have depends on the care you receive.I did not realize this happened in the U.K. I thought this happened in the USA,Not a commonwealth country. Naivete, you may call it.Again, thank you Rachael Clark, for shining a light on what could occur, if we are not diligent and proactive.

Having read, and been moved by "Dear Life" I was interested to read this written before Rachel Clarke specialised in palliative care. This book gives a good account of life as a junior (even up to 6 years after qualifying) doctor, but probably more importantly, highlights what is wrong in our health service. If Jeremy Hunt, who was Health Minister at the time this book alludes to, has read this book, he must realise that by forcing through the junior doctors contract, he is responsible for so many of our dedicated and brilliant staff, leave. As a retired registered nurse, midwife, health visitor with a diploma in humanistic counselling and a degree in sociology, I know that just 2 years after it was created, the NHS proved to cost more than had been budgeted for. To rectify this ever increasing problem, politicians decided in 1974 that they would organise the way it was run and as a result, the service has run into trouble ever since. Everyone needs to read this book. It highlights that we, the taxpayers, should be paying more tax to keep this brilliant service going, that we need to stop the interference of politicians who change every few years and most are ignorant about health, ill or well, and get rid of expensive business managers. Long may the Rachel Clarkes of this world continue to serve in the NHS.

Not an eye-opener as everyone knows what has and is happening in health care, but an insight from the inside itself. As a friend of journalists and wife and mother of doctors, I would recommend this book to all in the hope that things can be improved by an informed public

Too little about the actual patients and too much about the problems of the NHS.

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