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Intensive Care
- Author
- Suzanne Crowe
- Narrator
- Orlaith Rafter
- Publisher
- Hachette Books Ireland
- Publish Date
- 28 August 2025
- Run Time
- 8 hours 17 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
'Powerful' Irish Times
INSIDE THE MOMENTS WHEN EVERY SECOND MATTERS
In these pages, Dr Suzanne Crowe opens the doors to a world few ever see: the charged and fragile realm of paediatric intensive care. From her earliest days as a junior doctor to becoming one of Ireland's leading specialists, she shares extraordinary stories of the children she's treated, the families who've loved them and the moments when life hung by a thread.
But this is not only a book about medicine. It is about how the healing begins with a doctor bearing witness and being present. It is about what it means to offer hope when certainty is gone. At its heart lies the searing personal loss of Suzanne's own child, Beatrice - a grief that reshaped her as a doctor and as a person.
Written with honesty and a clinician's eye for detail, this is a story of deep compassion and unflinching truth. A profoundly human memoir from a doctor whose work has touched many lives.
Critics Review
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Crowe writes with breathtaking matter of factness .. Her account of her slow emergence from all-encompassing grief makes for harrowing reading
Irish Independent
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Crowe is powerful in her exactitude about the fear and uncertainty a career in medicine creates and the many times she wanted to quit ... gruelling truth of what it takes to save the lives of all involved
Irish Times
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Details
- Author
- Suzanne Crowe
- Narrator
- Orlaith Rafter
- Duration
- 8 hours 17 minutes
- Release Date
- 28 August 2025
- ISBN
- 9781399741231
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Hachette Books Ireland
- Genre
- Memoirs, Autobiography: science, technology and medicine, Medical profession, Narrative theme: death, grief, loss, Paediatric medicine / child and adolescent medicine
Synopsis
'Breathtaking' Irish Independent 'Powerful' Irish TimesINSIDE THE MOMENTS WHEN EVERY SECOND MATTERSIn these pages, Dr Suzanne Crowe opens the doors to a world few ever see: the charged and fragile realm of paediatric intensive care. From her earliest days as a junior doctor to becoming one of Ireland's leading specialists, she shares extraordinary stories of the children she's treated, the families who've loved them and the moments when life hung by a thread.But this is not only a book about medicine. It is about how the healing begins with a doctor bearing witness and being present. It is about what it means to offer hope when certainty is gone. At its heart lies the searing personal loss of Suzanne's own child, Beatrice - a grief that reshaped her as a doctor and as a person.Written with honesty and a clinician's eye for detail, this is a story of deep compassion and unflinching truth. A profoundly human memoir from a doctor whose work has touched many lives.
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