34 Patients

<p><b>Discover the profound and moving portrait of one doctor's life and work in the NHS</b><br><br><b>'Wonderful - insightful and compassionate' </b>Dr Richard Shepherd bestselling author of <i>Unnatural Causes</i><br>________<br><br><b>They can't teach you how to be a doctor at medical school . . .</b><br><br>As a junior doctor Dr Tom Templeton learnt how to do his job from books professors and other doctors and nurses. But the most important lessons - tolerance kindness resilience and bravery - he learnt from his patients.<br><br>Here he shares the stories of just 34 and how they changed his life while he was helping theirs.<br><br>From a stillbirth to the old woman who lived a century from the inhabitants of stately homes to the homeless these stories whether heartwarming or heartbreaking funny or tragic are always inspiring and illuminating.<br><br><b>We are all patients but discover for the first time how the doctors see us . . .</b><br>________<br><br><b>'An admirably told story' </b><i>Spectator</i><br><br><b>'Informative and personal humbling and healing'</b> <i>Observer</i></p>