Intensive Care

A Spectator Book of the YearAn Observer, New Statesman, Financial Times, Irish Times and Scotsman 2021 Non-Fiction Highlight''Compassionate, beautifully written .. will only grow in importance and interest as the years go by'' Jenny Colgan, Spectator''Searing yet beautiful ... less a hot take that an astute manifesto for what matters most in life, as well as in medicine.'' Rachel Clarke, author of Breathtaking: Inside the NHS in a Time of Pandemic and Your Life in My Hands ''Well written, often entertaining and occasionally deeply moving; an unmissable account of a year we will all try too hard to forget.'' The Times ''Inspiring. I can''t recommend it too strongly. You will learn a lot from it, and you will find much more that is encouraging.'' Allan Massie, ScotsmanIntensive Care is about how coronavirus emerged, spread across the world and changed all of our lives forever. But it''s not, perhaps, the story you expect. Gavin Francis is a GP who works in both urban and rural communitie