Catch Your Breath: The Secret Life of a Sleepless Anaesthetist

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The first part is very light-hearted, and to be honest, he doesn't always inspire confidence as he recounts his experiences. A young anaesthetist when COVID breaks out, Ed Patrick recounts his journey to through medicine, and how that brought him to the specialty of anaesthesia. The main difference between this book and any of Adam Kay's is that the end of this one was set during the COVID-19 pandemic. Of course, this book isn’t solely based around the pandemic, though the chapters that are show us the harsh realities of life on the frontline.

And it feels weird to think that about someone who, not only is a working, functioning doctor, but also wrote a book about it, so I give him the benefit of the doubt and conclude that he probably is good at what he does, just not very good at presenting himself that way.

As soon as I saw this book I knew I wanted to read it, the hardback copy is beautiful as it looks like a green medical box! This is shown in the book through the occurrence of the pandemic and how that shifted hospital life for many. In the hospital, life moves very quickly and patients can shift from seemingly healthy to disastrous is mere hours. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. In medicine, you are not just carrying out procedures, but rather you are helping real life people and it is so important to respect their wishes when working.

Full of humour, honest and unfettered emotion touching not only on the training that junior doctors must go through but how the NHS faired during the covid pandemic.Written in short snippets of cases, experiences, and daily life this book was super easy to read and would be a great book to dip in and out of if you're short on time. Because, in the real medical life, which involves hospital and night shifts and anaesthesia, there is nothing like that.