Dear Life: A Doctor's Story of Love, Loss and Consolation

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A nurse suggested to Rachel that when Florence, who 'was scarcely more than a skeleton wrapped in parchment', was moved in bed to prevent developing skin damage, the laughing gas should be used to reduce the pain. Christina Aguilera reveals she needed FOUR people to help her move in her gown while filming elaborate Menulog ad Luke Evans reveals he has lost a staggering 17lbs in 10 weeks as he shows off his ripped physique in shirtless video If there is one metric of a civilised society, it should be the compassion and care with which we treat each other as we die. That means ensuing nobody in Britain should ever die on a trolley in a hospital” she told Dying Matters. Prince William's ready for action! Royal looks the part as he dons camouflage military gear before riding in...

The drama is produced in association with Northern Ireland Screen and filming took place in Belfast from April to May of this year. I love my wife. I love my daughter. I love every single thing about this world." The yearning in those words was almost unbearable to hear and yet, as he said them, he was smiling. Florence, in her late eighties, was admitted with an aggressive cancer that had caused multiple fractures to her bones. It’s halfway through her book that her story turns to palliative medicine. “Despite my love of acute and emergency medicine, I found myself drawn to patients with life-limiting illness precisely, in part, because some other doctors ran a mile.” Chapters such as “Wonder”, “Light in the Dark”, “Clutching at Straws”, and “Gratitude” tell empathetic stories of Clarke’s encounters with the dying, and bear witness to “people rising to their best, upon facing the worst”. There are deathbed scenes, funerals and even a couple of weddings. There is none of the cynicism or dark humour that drive Adam Kay’s medical memoirs; the drivers of Clarke’s narrative are instead the joys and consolations of teamwork at the sharp end of life as it fades, and her relationship with one dear life in particular she’d like to hold on to: her father. Shooting a large part of the miniseries in long, real-time sequences should make for captivating viewing and allow the audience to be immersed in the struggles our real-life heroes faced in the wards and emergency departments across the country, day after day, during the pandemic. This story is a chance for their voices and sacrifices to be seen and heard.”

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