Catch Your Breath: The Secret Life of a Sleepless Anaesthetist

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That he is a comedian as well as an Anaesthetist shines through in his writing, he brings a lightness of touch to his narrative and as a result Catch Your Breath feels like a perversely gentle read despite some of the subject matter!

Full of humour, honest and unfettered emotion touching not only on the training that junior doctors must go through but how the NHS faired during the covid pandemic. I think Catch Your Breath is one of these books that everyone must read, so I therefore recommend it to everyone. It’s very evident in his jokes and character descriptions, but could have been stronger in other places.Catch Your Breath moved me from laughter, to moments of remembrance and gave me a whole new appreciation of what working in a hospital is like. Catch Your Breath is absolutely hilarious and really helped to lessen some of my health and hospital anxiety that I’ve really struggled with for years.

This is shown in the book through the occurrence of the pandemic and how that shifted hospital life for many.I definitely did not dislike it, but I think because I work in the medical field and I worked through Covid I found it less enlightening and funny and more like reliving my experience of Covid, which was neither new or funny. The book raises the important issue of mental health support for medical staff and the general public after dealing with the pandemic. A funny and well-written book, that is a necessary read to understand what really went on in the ICUs. I didn’t expect that being an anaesthetist in a pandemic would leave me outside my front door naked, or indeed that I’d be telling this story to readers.

Accessible entry: Steep internal staircase consisting of 20 steps leading to the basement where The Lower Hall space is located. It may be interesting, but there certainly aren't any plot twists, secret lives or extraordinary things you wouldn't know if you had just a little interest in the field.It was a draining time for doctors that even their days off did not feel like days off, there were simply days where they were at the hospital and days when they are not.