Dear Life: A Doctor's Story of Love and Loss

by DEAR LIFE Rachel Clarke Narrated by DEAR LIFE Rachel Clarke

Overview

"Rachel Clarke's authentic narration achieves the most important thing in audio production. It allows the author's humanity to shine and her written words to be transformed into a moving listening experience...Whether end-of-life medicine is one of your interests or not, this audiobook will deepen your connection with others and your deepest self." -- AudioFile Magazine

In Dear Life, palliative care specialist Dr. Rachel Clarke recounts her professional and personal journey to understand not the end of life, but life at its end.

This program is read by the author.

Death was conspicuously absent during Rachel's medical training. Instead, her education focused entirely on learning to save lives, and was left wanting when it came to helping patients and their families face death. She came to specialize in palliative medicine because it is the one specialty in which the quality, not quantity of life truly matters.

In the same year she started to work in a hospice, Rachel was forced to face tragedy in her own life when her father was diagnosed with terminal cancer. He'd inspired her to become a doctor, and the stories he had told her as a child proved formative when it came to deciding what sort of medicine she would practice. But for all her professional exposure to dying, she remained a grieving daughter.

Dear Life follows how Rachel came to understand-as a child, as a doctor, as a human being-how best to help patients in the final stages of life, and what that might mean in practice.

A Macmillan Audio production from Thomas Dunne Books

Editorial Reviews

SEPTEMBER 2020 - AudioFile

Rachel Clarke’s authentic narration achieves the most important thing in audio production. It allows the author’s humanity to shine and her written words to be transformed into a moving listening experience. Her precise British articulation and relaxed phrasing are soothing; her delivery style softens the harsh realities she encounters in her end-of-life medical practice. As a writer, she is observant and stays open to the reactions and insights that bubble up in her. Her descriptions of her own bout with cancer and her conversations with her father, also a physician, showcase her gift for narrative and her keen insights into human character. Whether end-of-life medicine is one of your interests or not, this audiobook will deepen your connection with others and your deepest self. T.W. © AudioFile 2020, Portland, Maine

SEPTEMBER 2020 - AudioFile

Rachel Clarke’s authentic narration achieves the most important thing in audio production. It allows the author’s humanity to shine and her written words to be transformed into a moving listening experience. Her precise British articulation and relaxed phrasing are soothing; her delivery style softens the harsh realities she encounters in her end-of-life medical practice. As a writer, she is observant and stays open to the reactions and insights that bubble up in her. Her descriptions of her own bout with cancer and her conversations with her father, also a physician, showcase her gift for narrative and her keen insights into human character. Whether end-of-life medicine is one of your interests or not, this audiobook will deepen your connection with others and your deepest self. T.W. © AudioFile 2020, Portland, Maine

Product Details

BN ID:	2940179027881
Publisher:	Macmillan Audio
Publication date:	09/01/2020
Edition description:	Unabridged

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