Working on the frontline as an NHS paramedic, Jake Jones has seen his fair share of chaos. And in these dark days of division and isolationism, she encourages us all to stretch out a hand.” In our most extreme moments, when life is lived most intensely, Christie is with us. We watch Christie as she nurses a premature baby who has miraculously made it through the night, we stand by her side during her patient’s agonising heart-lung transplant, and we hold our breath as she washes the hair of a child fatally injured in a fire, attempting to remove the toxic smell of smoke before the grieving family arrive. Taking us from birth to death and from A&E to the mortuary, The Language of Kindness is an astounding account of a profession defined by acts of care, compassion and kindness. “Christie Watson was a nurse for twenty years. It’s a truly beautiful book and I’d highly recommend giving it a read. In The Language of Kindness Christie documents her 20 years of nursing in NHS hospitals, exploring with beautiful writing what it means to have the privilege of caring for another human being. One of the first medical memoirs that I read after devouring This is Going to Hurt, I quickly discovered that Christie Watson is an incredibly intelligent and insightful writer.
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