Breathtaking: Inside the NHS in a Time of Pandemic is a 2021 memoir by British physician Rachel Clarke, published by Little, Brown and Company. It is based on the NHS during the first four months of 2020, leading up to and including the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom.[1][2] The book was adapted by Clarke, Jed Mercurio, and Prasanna Puwanarajah, to produce a TV series of the same name, first broadcast in 2024.[3][4][5][6][7][8]
Author | Rachel Clarke |
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Subject | COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom |
Set in | NHS |
Published | 2021 |
Publisher | Little, Brown and Company |
Publication place | United Kingdom |
Pages | 228 |
ISBN | 978-1-4087-1378-5 |
Preceded by | Your Life in My Hands (2017) Dear Life, a doctor's story of love and loss (2020) |
The book was preceded by Your Life in My Hands (2017) and Dear Life (2020).[9]
References
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- ^ Rimmer, Abi (23 February 2024). "Sixty seconds on . . . Breathtaking". British Medical Journal. 384: q487. doi:10.1136/bmj.q487. ISSN 1756-1833.
- ^ Dhairyawan, Rageshri (February 2024). "Candour, care, and COVID-19". The Lancet. 403 (10428): 718. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(24)00311-8.
- ^ Bunting, Madeleine (23 January 2021). "Breathtaking by Rachel Clarke and Intensive Care by Gavin Francis review – two superb doctor-writers". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 29 April 2024. Retrieved 27 April 2024.
- ^ Patterson, Christina (27 April 2024). "Breathtaking by Rachel Clarke, review — on the Covid front line". The Times. Archived from the original on 29 April 2024. Retrieved 27 April 2024.
- ^ Sullivan, Rory (25 February 2021). "Breathtaking, by Dr Rachel Clarke, review: a remarkable chronicle of the pandemic, told from the front line". inews. Archived from the original on 29 April 2024. Retrieved 27 April 2024.
- ^ Haseltine, William A. "Written From The Frontlines Of The Pandemic, Rachel Clarke's Memoir 'Breathtaking' Is A Must Read". Forbes. Retrieved 27 April 2024.
- ^ Moore, Wendy (5 February 2021). "Breathtaking: Inside the NHS in a time of pandemic". Times Literary Supplement. pp. 24–26. Retrieved 27 April 2024.
- ^ Thorley, Jennifer (July 2021). "How the light gets in". The Lancet Respiratory Medicine. 9 (7): 692. doi:10.1016/S2213-2600(21)00224-1.