Seven Signs of Life: Stories from an Intensive Care Doctor

But what if this was every day? And what if your ability to manage them was the difference between life and death?  For a doctor in Intensive Care this is part of the job. Fear in the eyes of a terminally ill patient who pleads with you to not let them die. Grief when you make a potentially fatal mistake. Disgust at caring for a convicted rapist. But there are also moments of joy, like the rare bright spots of lucidity for a dementia patient, or when the ward unexpectedly breaks into song. Dr Aoife Abbey shows us what a doctor sees of humanity as it comes through the revolving door of the hospital and takes us beyond a purely medical perspective. Told through seven emotions, _Seven Signs of Life_ is about what it means to be alive and how it feels to care for a living.