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The Unfolding Covid-19 My Thoughts, Memoirs and Patient’s Stories

Author : Ramsis F. Ghaly MD
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1664172963
Total Pages : 699 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (641 download)

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Download or read book The Unfolding Covid-19 My Thoughts, Memoirs and Patient’s Stories written by Ramsis F. Ghaly MD and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2021-06-08 with total page 699 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is so much happening as we the people of the world continue to evolve through COVID-19, with it, undoubtedly, being one of the most catastrophic events of modern times. This book is a continuation of my previous book titled; “Coronavirus: The Pandemic of the Century and the Wrath of God”. It recalls actual stories and memories thus far as mankind continues to evolve from the gloominess of COVID-19. This book represents my thoughts, views and various life events that I wish to share with you all. As a neurosurgeon and an anesthesiologist working the front lines within three major medical centers of the greater metropolitan area of Chicago, I have, without hesitancy, never closed my doors to my patients. My faith in our Lord Jesus and my abounding love to my patients, residents, and students has kept me going and strengthened my soul. During COVID and as the world coming out of COVID, it was a good time to flash back in marvelous works of our Lord, my patients stories and my achievements, performances, lessons learned. This book is centered in deep Christian rituals and meditations consisting of 115 chapters distributed over 12 sections touching on various topics that have passed through my mind during the evolution of COVID-19. These topics range from what I deem, critical COVID, all the way to vaccines, political COVID, and concomitant events as well as my personal memoirs, patient care, and the living stories of my patients. There is so much to share with you from April 2020 until the time of publication, so let us open the book and explore my time during COVID-19.

The Unfolding Covid-19 My Thoughts, Memoirs and Patient's Stories

Author : Ramsis F Ghaly, MD
Publisher : Xlibris Us
ISBN 13 : 9781664172975
Total Pages : 850 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (729 download)

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Download or read book The Unfolding Covid-19 My Thoughts, Memoirs and Patient's Stories written by Ramsis F Ghaly, MD and published by Xlibris Us. This book was released on 2021-06-08 with total page 850 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is so much happening as we the people of the world continue to evolve through COVID-19, with it, undoubtedly, being one of the most catastrophic events of modern times. This book is a continuation of my previous book titled; "Coronavirus: The Pandemic of the Century and the Wrath of God". It recalls actual stories and memories thus far as mankind continues to evolve from the gloominess of COVID-19. This book represents my thoughts, views and various life events that I wish to share with you all. As a neurosurgeon and an anesthesiologist working the front lines within three major medical centers of the greater metropolitan area of Chicago, I have, without hesitancy, never closed my doors to my patients. My faith in our Lord Jesus and my abounding love to my patients, residents, and students has kept me going and strengthened my soul. During COVID and as the world coming out of COVID, it was a good time to flash back in marvelous works of our Lord, my patients stories and my achievements, performances, lessons learned. This book is centered in deep Christian rituals and meditations consisting of 115 chapters distributed over 12 sections touching on various topics that have passed through my mind during the evolution of COVID-19. These topics range from what I deem, critical COVID, all the way to vaccines, political COVID, and concomitant events as well as my personal memoirs, patient care, and the living stories of my patients. There is so much to share with you from April 2020 until the time of publication, so let us open the book and explore my time during COVID-19.

Memoirs of My Last Year of COVID-19

Author : Ramsis F. Ghaly MD
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 851 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (694 download)

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Download or read book Memoirs of My Last Year of COVID-19 written by Ramsis F. Ghaly MD and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2023-08-14 with total page 851 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is the author’s final documentary book on COVID-19, number Eight as it ended! A total series of Eight books covering, from author’s perspective, the entire journey, since the very beginning of SARS-COV-2 Late 2019. Memoirs are written as events had occurred and interpreted with the author’s personal views and experiences. The book contains much of the author’s philosophically and spiritual meditations as well. The last year of COVID Pandemic is an interesting transition to what is known as the “New Norm”. Many stories of daily events are shared, not only as a frontline Physician, Anesthesiologist and Neurosurgeon but also as a Christian believer with deep spiritual reflections on various events accompanied COVID-19 pandemic! The book contains so much of patients successes, experiences and testimonials. Although it is gone but the historic flashback of the global pandemic, is a living reality and my eight books shall be forever be documentaries to the coming generations of what the world has went through and how we all together in faith in our Lord Jesus survived its brutality! Living Through The Lat Year Of Global COVID Emergency Declaration: Events and Personal Experiences, Thoughts and Views: My Memoir Post- COVID-19 2022-2023 The Precious times and Painful ones!

Post Covid Living at the Shadows

Author : Ramsis F. Ghaly MD
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1669856534
Total Pages : 1044 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (698 download)

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Download or read book Post Covid Living at the Shadows written by Ramsis F. Ghaly MD and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2022-11-30 with total page 1044 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Will the world ever recover from COVID-19? As a practicing Neurosurgeon and anesthesiologist, I haven’t stop or close my practice. In contrary, I was much busier and happy to be in the frontline saving lives. The book contains not only my review to events occurred as the world began to recover from COVID-19 but also many of my medical and surgical adventures including patients’ stories during 2022 as COVID-19 slowing down! This is my fifth book since COVID-19 started! The fear is that COVID-19 has caused a lifetime impact and healed with visible permanent scar. Perhaps, the year 2022 is post-COVID. Living at the Shadows represents the New Era of “Hybrid Remote Living” for years to come! Indeed, COVID may be gone but not its shadow and the long-term impact of Lockdown!! Time has passed and the world hasn’t yet looked at how COVID-19 was handled and what lessons have been learned! Instead of celebrating Thanksgiving, among many others, the world witnessed post-COVID aggression! This book presents the author’s personal views, reflections and experiences during 2022 post-COVID-19 period covered over 178 chapters and 14 sections! The reader will reflect on what could be the new “norms” and events evolved as the world attempts to recover from the pandemic of “COVID-19”! In 14 sections over 153 chapters.

Rainbows at the Shadows of Covid- 19

Author : Ramsis F. Ghaly MD
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1669803163
Total Pages : 837 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (698 download)

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Download or read book Rainbows at the Shadows of Covid- 19 written by Ramsis F. Ghaly MD and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2022-02-08 with total page 837 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is my third book written during COVID-19 pandemic where I continued to serve unceasing as a practicing Neurosurgeon, Anesthesiologist, Intensivist and Pain Specialist in the Chicago land area. Despite the extreme negative impact of COVID-19 worldwide, I kept daily dairy of my thoughts, reflections and patients stories over a year since June 2021! As I kept writing, while the world is being flooded with the deadly virus and dreadful news, I saw the rainbows in the shadows of COVID-19. As in the days of Noah thousands of years ago after the deadly flood of the world and God covenant with man through the rainbow so is the current days of COVID-19, a renewal of the covenant between the Almighty God the Lord and the people. The current book shares my rainbows in the shadows of COVID-19 as follow up series of the author two books of COVID-19.The book divides into 20 sections and contains total off 194 chapters. The book designates major sections on my continuing education and wellbeing of my residents and students as well as Neurosurgical patients and inspired stories during late phases of COVID. It covers most of the ongoing thoughts and essential events from October 2020 through July 2021 during the COVID recovery phase such as Thanksgiving, Presidential Election and Inauguration, Christmas, New Year, riots and Vaccination. Another section is written to pay tribute to those sacrificed their lives and stood strong against the most horrific virus in the front line.

Searching for Truth

Author : Jacques G. LeBlanc
Publisher : FriesenPress
ISBN 13 : 1039188141
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book Searching for Truth written by Jacques G. LeBlanc and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2023-11-20 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Searching for truth is not a search for God. It is a journey into the self and what shapes humanity on earth. Truth seeking involves deep introspection and reflection, an open mind and the courage to look into life in our society and our earth. Experiences are examined with the intention of drawing on the knowledge and experience of others to illuminate the self. Considering current world events, what understanding of Truth is emerging: illusions or realities. Along my journey, I acquired experience through my work, my career and my life. Some of it came spontaneously, while other aspects came from looking back, trying to understand what happened, how it happened. That has informed and shaped my perspective on many topics. I worked hard on the quest for certainty, the wisdom of uncertainty, the practice of humility, the art of living with paradox and the learning of compassion. As I wrote this book, I relied on my inquisitive mind and creativity to take me on a path of facts and truth-finding in my life. They became the topics of which I have written about. Some texts are a cumulation of personal information, while others are research-based, providing examples of change in our society and how one can navigate the momentum of change. As I engaged myself in interests that pique my curiosity, the focus was on examining my thoughts and broadening my perspective and awareness of human well-being. I found that writing on these various themes was humbling and generated a sense of optimism in myself, of quest for wisdom in the extraordinary time we are in. I hope the reading material is inspirational at many levels, including personal, collective and global. I believe more and more in the well-deserved rewards of aging.

What July Knew

Author : Emily Koch
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 147356140X
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (735 download)

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Download or read book What July Knew written by Emily Koch and published by Random House. This book was released on 2023-01-26 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'July is such a brilliant creation - smart, inquisitive and determined' T.M. LOGAN author of The Holiday _______________________________________ One death. Eighteen facts. What's the truth? How do you solve the mystery of your mother's death if no one wants to talk about her? Not even your family. Especially not them. July knows a lot about her mother. She knows that she loved dancing on tables. That she was covered in freckles. She also knows that she misses her. Her mother died in a car crash when July was little. Or so she's been told. July is determined to find out the truth. But it might be more painful than the lies she's been told all these years. A compelling and moving mystery about family, community and the secrets people keep to protect those they love. Perfect for fans of Joanna Cannon, Janice Hallett and Elizabeth is Missing.

Sands of the Arena and Other Stories

Author : Ben Kane
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1398705993
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (987 download)

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Download or read book Sands of the Arena and Other Stories written by Ben Kane and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2021-09-16 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Sunday Times Bestselling author Ben Kane comes a collection of short stories: Sands of the Arena Can a wet-behind-the-ears gladiator survive a bloody contest ordered by Emperor Caligula? The Shrine Centurion Tullus discovers that Fate will always hold him in her grip. The Arena Legionary Piso's much anticipated payday plays out very differently than he expected. Eagles in the East Caught up in a bloody rebellion, Centurion Tullus battles to keep his men alive. Eagles in the Wilderness Bored with retirement, Centurion Tullus takes service with an amber merchant, voyaging to unknown, dangerous lands far beyond the empire. Hannibal: Good Omens History's most famous general seeks the gods' approval before his war with Rome. The March Romulus and Tarquinius travel to the ends of the earth, searching for their lost friend Brennus.

The Routledge International Handbook of Transdisciplinary Feminist Research and Methodological Praxis

Author : Jasmine B. Ulmer
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1003847617
Total Pages : 691 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book The Routledge International Handbook of Transdisciplinary Feminist Research and Methodological Praxis written by Jasmine B. Ulmer and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-03-14 with total page 691 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge International Handbook of Transdisciplinary Feminist Research and Methodological Praxis is organized around ways of doing fair and just research, with deliberate transdisciplinary overlap in each of the sections so as to share and demonstrate potential opportunities for lasting alliances. Authors and artists address topics that include the doing of original transdisciplinary research and engaging multiple communities in research; mentoring from both academic and community-based perspectives; creating and maintaining collaborative relationships; managing personal, professional, and financial challenges; addressing writing blocks and feelings of being overwhelmed; and experiences of care and joy. The range of feminist work invoked in this volume include, but are not limited to: intersectional feminisms, abolitionist feminism, Black feminism, Womanism, Chicana feminism, Latina feminism, BIPOC feminisms, Indigenous feminism, decolonial and postcolonial feminism, transnational feminism, gender and sexuality studies, queer feminism, trans feminisms, poststructural feminism, posthuman and more-than-human feminism, materialist feminism, crip feminism, feminist disability studies, quantum feminism, sonic feminisms, feminist science studies, science and technology studies, or STS, and more. From advanced graduate students to seasoned scholars, this volume presents timely knowledge and will be useful as a substantive guide to round out understandings of multiple approaches to feminist research.

Still Positive

Author : Julie Lewis
Publisher : Light Messages Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1611534917
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (115 download)

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Download or read book Still Positive written by Julie Lewis and published by Light Messages Publishing. This book was released on 2023-05-23 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One Woman's Journey of Advocacy, Faith, and Positivity "You only have three to five years to live." On the day she was diagnosed with HIV and thrust from the confines of her suburban mom bubble into the scary and unpredictable world of AIDS, Julie promptly found herself fighting for her life and rights amidst a disease she never imagined would hijack her future. With three young children, her family began making every effort to create lasting memories while simultaneously managing the debilitating side effects of early meds. They hid her illness for four years, fearing her children would suffer stigma and discrimination often experienced in the early days of the disease. Her diagnosis began a path of advocacy, faith, and positivity despite her life' s detour. Now, Julie advocates for better healthcare outcomes for women through the personal stories and reflections from her life. Her health journey creates space for those walking through their own family or medical crises to be seen and supported. "Some books tell you what to do or offer an outline for life... this book does not do that. The stories that make up Still Positive, offered something different and impactful. ... I couldn' t put it down." &– Danielle Eylander, Early Reader

Memories And Meows

Author : Debbie De Louise
Publisher : Next Chapter
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (661 download)

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Download or read book Memories And Meows written by Debbie De Louise and published by Next Chapter. This book was released on 2022-08-07 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ever wonder what cats are thinking? If your cats could write a blog, what would they talk about? In Memories And Meows, you'll meet four cats who share their everyday activities, health concerns, behavior issues and more. Floppy will tell you about his hospital experience and discusses feline diabetes. His sister, Holly, talks about her weight issues, describes how she made the change from a feral to a house cat, and even writes a fictional story featuring her fur and human family members. Harry talks about the merits and perils of being a black cat, shares his bad habit of wire and shoelace chewing, and even gives tips about how to cope with a crisis. His sister Hermione reveals her fascination with high and low places, discusses how she mastered the cat flap door, and offers her thoughts on the Cat Writers’ Association conference. If there’s a feline in your home or you enjoy reading about these quirky, beautiful, wise, and inspirational creatures, you’ll find these fur-st person tails from the cats’ point of view a purrfect read.

On Being Adjacent to Historical Violence

Author : Irene Kacandes
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110753359
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book On Being Adjacent to Historical Violence written by Irene Kacandes and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2021-12-06 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers to academic and general public readers timely reflections about our relationships to violence. Taking cues from the self-reflexivity, themes, and subject matters of Holocaust, queer, and Black studies, this large group of diverse intellectuals wrestles with questions that connect past, present and future: where do I stand in relation to violence? What is my attitude toward that adjacency? Whose story gets to be told by whom? What story do I take this image to be telling? How do I co-witness to another’s suffering? How do I honor the agency and resilience of family members or historical personages? How do past violence and injustice connect to the present? In smart, self-conscious, passionate, and often painfully beautiful prose, cultural practitioners, historians and cultural studies scholars such as Angelika Bammer, Doris Bergen, Ann Cvetkovich, Marianne Hirsch, Priscilla Layne, Mark Roseman, Leo Spitzer, Susan R. Suleiman and Viktor Witkowski explore such questions, inviting readers to do the same. By making available compelling examples of thinkers performing their own work within the cauldron of crises that came to a boil in 2020 and continued into the next year, this volume proposes strategies for moving forward with hope.

Research and Teaching in a Pandemic World

Author : Basil Cahusac de Caux
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 9811977577
Total Pages : 559 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (119 download)

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Download or read book Research and Teaching in a Pandemic World written by Basil Cahusac de Caux and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-01-01 with total page 559 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book adopts collaborative autoethnography as its methodology, and presents the collective witnessing of experiences of the COVID-19 pandemic within the higher education sector. Through the presentation of staff and student experiences and what was learnt from them, the authors examine the global phenomenon that is the COVID-19 pandemic through the purposeful exploration of their own experiences. This book presents an overall argument about the state of higher education in the middle of the pandemic and highlights academic issues and region-specific challenges. The reflections presented in this book offer insights for other staff and students, as well as academic policy-makers, regarding the pandemic experiences of those within academia. It also offers practical suggestions as to how we as a global community can move forward post-pandemic.

Home Safe

Author : Mitchell Consky
Publisher : Dundurn
ISBN 13 : 1459750292
Total Pages : 151 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (597 download)

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Download or read book Home Safe written by Mitchell Consky and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2022-11-01 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During a pandemic lockdown full of pyjama dance parties, life talks, and final goodbyes, a family helps a father die with dignity. In April 2020, journalist Mitchell Consky received bad news: his father was diagnosed with a rare and terminal cancer, with less than two months to live. Suddenly, he and his extended family — many of them healthcare workers — were tasked with reconciling the social distancing required by the Covid-19 pandemic with a family-based approach to end-of-life care. The result was a home hospice during the first lockdown. Suspended within the chaos of medication and treatments were dance parties, episodes of Tiger King, and his father’s many deadpan jokes. Leaning into his journalistic intuitions, Mitchell interviewed his father daily, making audio recordings of final talks, emotional goodbyes, and the unexpected laughter that filled his father’s final days. Serving as a catalyst for fatherly affection, these interviews became an opportunity for emotional confession during the slowed-down time of a shuttered world, and reflect how far a family went in making a dying loved one feel safe at home.

Thoughts Unlocked

Author : G. Sreenivasan
Publisher : Notion Press
ISBN 13 : 1649199813
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (491 download)

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Download or read book Thoughts Unlocked written by G. Sreenivasan and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2020-11-29 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A pandemic made us all sad, mute and tremble with fear. We locked the entire world one day and isolated ourselves from each other. This book Thoughts Unlocked – Lockdown Days Musings is a perfect riposte to a pandemic that has rendered the humans voiceless. Writer Sreenivasan ruminates on how the pandemic made a larger impact on his life and those around him. It would give the reader an insight into how a human mind works when, one day, the world closes all its doors and puts us all under house arrest. This book tells the stories of the past, present and future. It seems autobiographical and fictitious at times. It may lack in order of things, but is written in a language that is lucid, mild, straight and with a grand touch of humour. The thoughts the writer shares here would create in every reader a ponderous urgency to look back to the lives we had in the past. This book is a definite read and should be a great help in the freeing of our thoughts and presumptions

Every Doctor

Author : Leanne Rowe
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1000872769
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Every Doctor written by Leanne Rowe and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2023-05-19 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second edition of this well-received text advocates for a transformational change in the way doctors protect their mental health, look out for their colleagues, co-create a kinder, more humane work culture and lead health system reform. Offering practical strategies and real solutions, based both on medical literature and the wisdom of experienced doctors, the new edition reimagines healthcare, where every doctor is encouraged and supported to: Prioritise psychological wellbeing and physical protection Promote healthy workplace cultures, fairness and safety Build strong relationships by sharing challenges Save lives through medical co-leadership Rediscover the joy in medicine Brimming with poignant and hopeful stories and quotes from a diverse array of doctors from many different specialities and at all career stages, the book is a celebration of the growing global interconnectedness and the changing face of the medical profession. An invaluable support and companion for those in the early years of medicine, Every Doctor is a must-read for all doctors across all specialties and wherever they practise in the world, because exemplary care of patients, peers, profession and self is a lifelong journey.

Scrubbed

Author : Nikki Stamp
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
ISBN 13 : 1761064282
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (61 download)

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Download or read book Scrubbed written by Nikki Stamp and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2022-05-03 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The revealing, compelling memoir of one of Australia's foremost cardiothoracic surgeons, Dr Nikki Stamp. Raw, honest and compelling, Scrubbed is Dr Nikki Stamp's account of her life as one of Australia's leading cardiothoracic surgeons. A life lived at the very edge of modern medicine, where heart surgeons walk the thinnest of lines between life and death, and yet where the greatest challenge can be the medical system itself. From childhood Nikki Stamp wanted to be a doctor. It was a calling, not a career. Her love for her vocation only grew as a medical student, and as a young registrar going through training rotations she fell, totally and utterly, for the hugely demanding specialty of cardiothoracic surgery. But alongside the excitement and enormous challenges of trying to make it in one of the toughest and most competitive fields of surgery came warning signs. Even in the operating theatre, where she felt most alive, she battled with sexism, enormous egos and at times outright bullying. And within the hospital system she lived with inhuman hours, chronic sleep deprivation and bureaucratic mismanagement that had a profoundly damaging effect on her life outside of work. From the drama of the operating theatre, filled with both triumph and tragedy, to the brutal realities of surgical training and the sacrifices needed to make it to the top, to entrenched misogyny and the grinding nature of hospital politics, Scrubbed is one of the most revealing books yet written about the real life and experiences of a surgeon.