Belly Full
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Constellations Press
Published:29th May '25
Should be back in stock very soon
Dr Heidi Edmundson is an Emergency Medicine consultant at a London hospital. Belly Full is a forthright and unflinching account of the ill-health of the NHS in general and Emergency Medicine services in particular - and a bold record of her own health crisis.
It offers a candid view of what it is really like to work on the front line of the nation's health emergency, and the devastating implications for the well-being of our doctors and nurses.
The book is also alive to the rewards of living, and to the commitment to a specialism that prizes the incandescent work of decision-making, risk and recovery - values that are at the heart of emergency medicine and, maybe, also at the heart of life.
'Dr Heidi Edmundson gives a powerful testimony of the enmeshment of mind and body. Belly Full is a gripping tale of the moment, where we hide from our lives by keeping busy at work, where we we bury our fears and shame by distraction and self-deception. Going the extra mile at work is seen as virtuous; meanwhile our bodies are keeping the score of the consequences of our stress. Belly Full reads with the pace of a novel but hits harder from the knowledge that it is a true reflection of our burned-out world today.'
Bruce Daisley
Sunday Times bestselling author
ISBN: 9781917000079
Dimensions: 216mm x 154mm x 23mm
Weight: unknown
226 pages