What is it really like to work on the front line of Britain’s public services? What does it mean when every day might involve someone’s life in the balance? What does it cost to put the welfare of others above your own? In a frank and unflinching discussion, Henry Marsh, former NHS surgeon and author of the bestselling books Do No Harm and Admissions and John Sutherland, Metropolitan Police Officer and author of the memoir Blue, lift the veil on life beyond the blue flashing lights.
"The private healthcare system in the UK, anyway, is entirely parasitic on the NHS for the training of its staff and for bailing it out when things go wrong." Described as ‘a book about wisdom and experience’, Henry Marsh’s extraordinary memoir, Do No Harm, paved the way for a wave of new publishing that gave medicine a human face. To mark the publication of his compassionate and unflinching second book, Admissions, we present an exclusive Q&A in which Marsh considers the changing world of modern medicine, debates around end of life care and the precarious future of the NHS.
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