Saving a stranger's life
Subtitle: the diary of an emergency room doctor
By: Anne Biccard
Publisher: Jacana Media
Published: 2020
Place of publication: Auckland Park, South Africa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 221
ISBN-13: 9781431430659
Subjects: COVID-19 (Disease); Physicians; Biography; Emergency medical services; Emergency medicine
Description: "Anne Biccard has worked as an emergency doctor in Johannesburg for more than 30 years. It is a job that is both terrifying and thrilling, where death can be outwitted by skill and quick thinking, and the pressure eased by dark humour. The coronavirus, however, has added another dimension of fear. In this heartwarming and at times hilarious memoir she recounts some of the cases that have burst in through her doors, such as the woman who mistook her Dettol for beer and the man who tried to run down his cardiologist. There is sadness, too, as she remembers the patients who didn't make it. Above all, she writes of the camaraderie and dogged determination of health workers holding fast in the face of the Covid-19 nightmare as they battle, every day, to save a stranger's life."--