Palliative care: Patients show 鈥榓stonishing courage'
Palliative care doctor and writer, Rachel Clarke, has told 麻豆社 News that far from being depressing, her work at a hospice where she cares for patients close to death is often 鈥渋ncredibly uplifting鈥�.
At the end of life people often display 鈥渁stonishing courage, resilience, strength, determination,鈥� she told 麻豆社 Hardtalk鈥檚 Stephen Sackur.
鈥淭here is something about death's proximity鈥� that concentrates the mind. It forces you to think what do I really care about?鈥�
鈥淢y time is limited, it's coming to an end. And that's when I think people rise so often to their best selves.鈥�
Dr Clarke's books about the reality of the medical profession have been acclaimed for the unvarnished and thought-provoking picture they give of the reality of working in the NHS.
They have covered topics about training as a junior doctor, caring for people who are dying and the death of her father, and describing what it was like to work on the frontline during the Covid-19 pandemic.
