A Lucky Girl: A Nation Physician’s Story by Polly Morland
My score: 4 of 5 stars
A Lucky Girl is a non-fiction guide about the lifetime of a contemporary nation physician.
This guide was impressed by the invention of a long-lost guide within the bookcase of the creator’s mom—John Berger’s A Lucky Man—which was itself the story of a rustic physician printed within the Nineteen Sixties. In a collection of coincidences, unbeknown to her, creator Polly Morland discovered that she was residing in the identical distant valley that was the setting for A Lucky Man. In flip she spoke to the present physician of the valley who stated that Berger’s guide had been a giant affect on her personal decisions to grow to be a physician. Creator and physician started to satisfy and discuss, and the thought for a parallel guide, set in fashionable instances, took place. On this uncommon rural setting the physician is aware of her sufferers effectively and supplies a system of continuous care of their group.
With beautiful black and white images of the agricultural space and the physician, this was a really attention-grabbing learn. Many people are mourning the lack of a physician and medical workforce who know us effectively and who can be found after we want them. This guide follows the physician by means of the current Covid-19 state of affairs, and it was attention-grabbing to examine it by means of the eyes of the physician and her workforce.
This was a really candid story and effectively price studying. It sparked reminiscences of my very own childhood with a household physician who knew us all, however it is usually maybe a ray of hope at a time when the Nationwide Well being System appears to be floundering badly.
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Guide Description:
When Polly Morland is clearing out her mom’s home she finds a guide that can lead her to a exceptional determine residing on her personal doorstep: the nation physician who works in the identical distant, wooded valley she has lived in for a few years. This physician is a rarity in modern medication – she is aware of her sufferers inside out, and their tales are deeply entwined along with her personal.
In A Lucky Girl, with its stunning pictures by Richard Baker, Polly Morland has written a profoundly shifting love letter to a panorama, a group and, above all, to what it means to be a superb physician.
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