The language of kindness
Subtitle: a nurse's story
By: Christie Watson
Edition: First U.S. edition.
Publisher: Tim Duggan Books
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 326
ISBN-13: 9781524761639; 9781524761646
Subjects: Nurse and patient; Empathy; Nursing; Anecdotes; Nurses; Kindness; Biography
Description: "A memoir about the experiences of a nurse in London, focusing on the overlooked importance of kindness and compassion"--Provided by publisher.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Worth risking life for; title: A tree of veins; title: Everything you can imagine is real; title: The origins of the world; title: At first the infant; title: The struggle for existence; title: Somewhere under my left ribs; title: To live is so startling; title: Small things, with great love; title: O the bones of the people; title: So we beat on; title: At close of day; title: There are always two deaths; title: And the flesh of the child grew warm.