![]() ![]() The feeling of powerlessness is perhaps the worst part. I pause to watch for a moment while she whispers to him, brushing his cheek with a finger, the leads and wires coiling around her arms, they are tethered.” “She rocks him gently and I push the button, I give him a dose to keep him comfortable. There is, for instance, the doomed baby that can’t even be held by its mother without morphine to quell its pain. “ Self-care” is not a concept this caregiver is familiar with.īut heroic Laura is only as effective as the tools at hand and the system that employs her. You’ll ache at the way she finally ditches the dude. (The arrival of pizza one night is a significant event.) During a walk, she’s attacked by a bird. ![]() ![]() She endures long hours and horrible nutrition. Her focus isn’t the suffering children but a few agonizing days in the life of one particular nurse, Laura, who is nearing complete systemic collapse. In a poetic but disjointed second novel, at times as harshly illuminating as a fluorescent-lighted operating room and at others as confusing as an overwhelmed ER, British writer Emma Glass - herself a working nurse - depicts a London hospital nursery ward where tiny humans struggle to survive. ![]() Today, there are far fewer nurses than that - 30 million and shrinking every year. One night in the ’90s, nearly 50 million people watched George Clooney pretend to be a doctor. If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from, whose fees support independent bookstores. ![]()
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