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Joanna Cannon Wellcome Collection, 2019, HB, 176pp, £10.99, 978-1788160575 Any doctor who reads Breaking & Mending , Joanna Cannon’s memoir of life as a junior doctor, will find something that both resonates and educates. In candid detail she charts her progress from medical school, through the maelstrom of a busy A&E department, to walking the lonely hospital corridors at night. In a series of vignettes we observe her kindness, whether she is holding the hand of a dying patient or carefully measuring how to deliver bad news. However, her frank admission that ‘compassion is something to …
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