A great insight to the workings within a hospital and despite some of the bad days, it reminds me that we still need to keep ourselves going with a bit of humour. For those on the front line, in our hospitals and ambulances, our GP surgeries, we asked of them to walk towards a virus that threatened both their lives and of those they cared about. He has performed across the UK, including at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and hosts the “Comedians’ Surgery” podcast where he speaks to guests including Joe Lycett, Rose Matafeo and Reginald D Hunter about their health stories and experiences.

There are around 50 episodes featuring guests such as James Acaster, Rose Matafeo, Joe Lycett, Reginald D Hunter and Andy Hamilton. The rest of the book describes with detail and humour what it is to be a junior doctor and, latterly, an anaesthetist. As we are living through covid , it was also a good insight to see how our fantastic NHS were prepared to go that extra mile even at the expense of their own mental and physical health to get so many people , desperately ill with this disease through their darkest days. I recommend it, just maybe not for someone in the medical field as they might get more out of it than I did. I didn't really know much about what an anaesthetist did before reading this book, but I enjoy medical memoirs, so I'd thought I'd give it a read.Whenever I needed to do some 'life stuff' I'd always tell myself I'd put the book down as soon as I'd finished that particular snippet but then I'd start the next one and tell myself that was definitely the last and so on and so on until I was having to drag myself away. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.

is a compelling exploration of the often-overlooked world of Anesthetists, offering readers a deeper understanding of their vital role in healthcare. He has performed across the UK, including at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and hosts the "Comedians' Surgery" podcast where he speaks to guests including Joe Lycett, Rose Matafeo and Reginald D Hunter about their health stories and experiences. I found this book to be a very helpful insight to read for my university application to study medicine. This was a book that at times was hard to read due to the pure raw emotion and honesty but then within minutes I was gasping for air as I was laughing so much and while I felt some of these stories were over embellished, who doesn't re tell a story and now beef it up a bit? Nothing but respect for doctors and all the staff who care and help others at their most vulnerable times.

As a memoir, Catch your Breath has an impressive number of dialogues which are so vivid and smart and hilarious that I´ve caught myself just laughing on my own more than once. It was a draining time for doctors that even their days off did not feel like days off, there were simply days where they were at the hospital and days when they are not. Ed also smashes that rule - this is a beautifully written book which is also incredibly funny, with regular laugh out loud moments. So to all those that railed against nurses doing dance video’s on Tik Tok, for those that blamed medical teams for cancelling surgery, closing clinics, take a step back and take a long deep look into your souls and acknowledge the debt we owe these people. Hilariously funny, moving and truly insightful, it follows Ed's journey from bewildered medical student in Aberdeen to unflinching anaesthetist on the NHS frontline.

Medical memoirs always feel like home to me and I really miss my time working at the hospital; this book felt so familiar to me. Because it pushes away the darkest of thoughts, allows those facing what men and women like Ed Patrick did, to maintain some level of sanity. Nothing in their training could prepare them for the onslaught of the loss of life, the relentless waves of admissions, lack of governmental support and the terrible knowledge that there was little they could do! Ed Patrick frequently describes feeling helpless in the novel whilst his patients rely on him and sometimes you cannot completely rely on facts, especially during moments of emotional hardship in families after losing a loved one.Patrick's wish for polite requests rather than demanding ones from colleagues adds a human touch to the narrative. Yes it is a memoir that hits you at moments like a hammer blow, yes it will upset you, cause you to reflect, but also it will have you rolling around laughing so hard you will need tissues to wipe away tears of laughter. Even the people, real people, come across as a bit flat; lots about his own mental and emotional challenges. We have all lived a shared experience in the last two years, but for some, the essential workers, the experience was much more acute, it took all they had and more. This book follows Ed from medical school, through rotations as a junior doctor to training as an anaesthetist.

of 'This Is Going To Hurt', there are mentions of patients he encounters from paediatrics through to the geriatrics, as he works in challenging NHS conditions to do his work effectively; that being, keeping people alive. There is some humour in the second half - however Covid deaths are too raw and sad for them to be anything but.Ed is unapologetic in his unrestrained views of the NHS, and his stark honesty during the COVID-19 pandemic was both refreshing and desperately sad. The book raises the important issue of mental health support for medical staff and the general public after dealing with the pandemic. I said for a while that I didn’t want to read or watch anything to do with Covid or the pandemic - why, indeed, when I lived through it?