Life support : the diary of a doctor on the Covid frontlines /
"A powerful, moving account of an intensive care doctor's life on the frontline of the Covid-19 pandemic. As a doctor running the intensive care unit at one of London's top hospitals, Jim Down has spent his life working as healthcare's last resort, where the unexpected is always...
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London :
Viking,
2021.
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