Genre: Non-Fiction, Medical, Auto-BiographicalPublisher: Tim Duggan Books
ISBN: 152476163X
Format: Hardback, Audio-Book, Paperback
Release Date: 8th May 2018
Links: Goodreads, Amazon.com, Indigo,
B&N, Book Depository
Rating: 8/10
Synopsis:
Christie Watson spent twenty years as a nurse, and in this intimate, poignant, and remarkably powerful book, she opens the doors of the hospital and shares its secrets. She takes us by her side down hospital corridors to visit the wards and meet her most unforgettable patients.
In the neonatal unit, premature babies fight for their lives, hovering at the very edge of survival, like tiny Emmanuel, wrapped up in a sandwich bag. The emergency room is overcrowded as ever, with waves of alcohol and drug addicted patients as well as patients like Betty, a widow suffering chest pain, frail and alone.
Through the smallest of actions, nursing provides vital care and kindness. All of us will experience illness in our lifetime, and we will all depend on the support and dignity that nurses offer us; yet the women and men who form the vanguard of our health care remain unsung. In this age of fear, hate, and division, Christie Watson has written a book that reminds us of all that we share, and of the urgency of compassion.
Review:
**Thanks to Penguin Random House Canada for sending me a free copy**
This book is extremely thought provoking. I was gripped from the start and felt attached to all of her patients and the things that they were going through. She tells vivid stories that veer between heartwarming and desperately sad. Christie Watson goes into great detail about how showing a little kindness can go a long way.
This isn't the type of book I'd normally go for but the premise was intriguing and I wanted to try something new.
A Language of Kindness is a memoir of a nurse. She talks about her experiences as a trainee nurse and everything she has learned along her journey.
This book is extremely thought provoking. I was gripped from the start and felt attached to all of her patients and the things that they were going through. She tells vivid stories that veer between heartwarming and desperately sad. Christie Watson goes into great detail about how showing a little kindness can go a long way.
I really enjoyed reading about Christie Watson's journey through nursing. She specialised in children's intensive care but spent her years training through different departments, such as in the delivery room, the mental health ward and the operating room.
Her experiences were honest and at times brutal and heartbreaking. The book really makes you appreciate and understand what nurses and doctors go through during their day.
This book is a fast and interesting read. You're left thinking about everything in life and the journey's everyone goes through. Hours after finishing the book I was still left thinking about everything I had read; from the patients to her colleagues. You really come to understand the attachment nurses have to their patients and their work.
It is a very emotional read and once I'd definitely recommend to others. I had tears in my eyes and couldn't put the book down from start to finish. Christie Watson has done a wonderful job and really goes to prove how a little kindness can go a long way.
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