Vintage Seven Signs of Life: Stories from an Intensive Care Doctor

This is an interesting account of the experiences and feelings of an Intensive Care Doctor. Nobody likes being ill. Nobody wants to be in hospital unless it is for something joyous when a new baby is coming into the world. If you are like me, you even dread going to the Dentist!We all rely on our GP Doctors, the Nurses at our Health Centres and Hospitals and the array of Doctors from those in training right up to the Professors in their particular field of medicine. In relying on them and in needing them, we don't consider how their work for us affects them and their well being.This book is well written, interesting and will help you the patient see things from the other side of the bed.

The narrative is split into various chapters that seemed a bit contrived, whilst I was interested enough to read the whole book I was left wanting. Some of the accounts were quite touching but it was not quite the warts & all account I was expecting. I suspect a follow up book after the writers retirement might be more candid. No doubt litigation is an obstacle to more revealing stories.

Absolutely amazing book - encapsulating the realities of a world that is perhaps rightly hidden from the public eye, but yet tells the story compassionately for those who would know or understand what an intensive care doctor does - a career path that usually brings blank looks from those who ask.

I have just finished reading this wonderful book. It is informative and illuminating but it is, most of all, an account of a doctor’s love and passion for her patients and their families. It has inspired me and I can’t wait to read more from Aoife Abbey.

A beautifully written book, heart wrenching realism of the life of ICM.So good you’ll want to read it again immediately!