The language of kindness a nurse's story

• Main Author: Watson, Christie (Author)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: London Vintage Publishing 2019
• Edition: First U.S. edition
• Subjects: Nurse-Patient Relations > Personal Narratives; Nurses > Personal Narratives; Empathy > Personal Narratives
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"A memoir about the experiences of a nurse in London, focusing on the overlooked importance of kindness and compassion"--Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: Worth risking life for
• A tree of veins
• Everything you can imagine is real
• The origins of the world
• At first the infant
• The struggle for existence
• Somewhere under my left ribs
• To live is so startling
• Small things, with great love
• O the bones of the people
• So we beat on
• At close of day
• There are always two deaths
• And the flesh of the child grew warm.