num_pages: 160
description: 
  An intimate, urgent account of doctor burnout and life as a psychiatrist from bestselling author Joanna Cannon
"A few years ago, I found myself in A&amp;E.I had never felt so ill. I was mentally and physically broken. So fractured, I hadn't eaten properly or slept well, or even changed my expression for months. I sat in a cubicle, behind paper-thin curtains, listening to the rest of the hospital happen around me, and I shook with the effort of not crying. I was an inch away from defeat, from the acceptance of a failure I assumed would be inevitable, but I knew I had to carry on. I had to somehow walk through it.Because I wasn't the patient. I was the doctor."A frank account of mental health from both sides of the doctor-patient divide, from the bestselling author of The Trouble with Goats and Sheep and Three Things About Elsie, based on her own experience as a doctor working on a psychiatric ward.
language: English
title: Breaking & Mending: A Doctor’s Story of Burnout and Recovery
publisher: Wellcome Collection