34 Patients: The profound and uplifting memoir about the patients who changed one doctor's life

**Discover the profound and moving portrait of one doctor's life and work in the NHS** **'Wonderful - insightful and compassionate'** Dr Richard Shepherd, bestselling author of __Unnatural Causes__ \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ **They can't teach you how to be a doctor at medical school . . .** 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. Here, he shares the stories of just 34, and how they changed his life while he was helping theirs. 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. **We are all patients, but discover for the first time how the doctors see us . . .** \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ **'An admirably told story'** __Spectator__ **'Informative and personal, humbling and healing'** __Observer__ "A profoundly moving portrait of health, hope and humanity in the NHS, told with vivid compassion through one doctor's 34 most memorable cases. We ask so much of our doctors. To heal. To trust. To care. To listen. To tell a man he'll die tomorrow. To help a man who doesn't want to live. To look into a parent's panicked eyes as their daughter fights for breath. To watch a 103-year-old woman slip away. Doctors know our deepest secrets, our private worries and our most vulnerable moments. In this breathtaking memoir of patients he has helped, lost, and those who have changed him forever, Dr Tom Templeton weaves a profound and moving portrait of humanity, asking us to treat all with compassion"--Publisher's description