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A book written by a doctor, about doctors and for doctors is not common. The book provides an insight into the doctors' lives, the work they do, the pressures they face, the satisfaction they derive, entwined with the immigrant experience.An immigrant narrative from the perspective of doctors, medicine and hospitals is a unique one and perhaps even the first of its kind.The story is an honest and authentic depiction of doctors and immigrants, facing the trials and tribulations of medicine and of working in a foreign country, penned down thoughtfully so that every reader also reads, understands and empathizes with the situations and events.Dr Bornali Datta is a pulmonologist and public health professional with experience in the private, public and academic sectors, including clinical work in pulmonology, public health work and research. She has trained in India (MBBS, MD Medicine) and the UK (MRCP, CCST Respiratory) and has now completed MPH-Distance Learning, University of London.
She worked in NHS, UK from 2000 to 2010 and joined Medanta the Medicity, Delhi NCR, India in 2010; she is Director, Respiratory Department, Medanta. She feels passionately about medicine and health inequity.
She is the author of In a Better Place: A Doctor's Journey (Bloomsbury India, 2022), a novel on the lives of doctors, which she feels is not written about enough.A doctor's white coat is like an armour against the world. Cool and confident behind it, smiling to reassure nervous patients, while the doctor's own anxieties and uncertainties remain well hidden. In a Better Place takes us to the world behind that self-assured exterior through the lives of Sudha, practising in a busy hospital in the heart of Delhi, her husband, Girish, and their close circle of doctor friends and colleagues.
It is a world of sudden crises and long hours in bleak hospital wards, courageous fights to save a life and heartbreak, personal dilemmas and aspirations for a better life, but also the great satisfactions of a job well done. Always there is the pulsating canvas of the city-first the hospital in Delhi, then in England. From minor observations to broader strokes-a doctor evaluating quickly what to do to save a patient, the rusty screech of a screen as it is pulled to give privacy to a patient being given emergency care, to a tea seller near the IIT gate and a dhaba which serves excellent food, the details help us connect to Sudha, Girish, Jai and Sanjay with a rare immediacy. Always, like a good doctor does her patient, Bornali Datta carries the reader along with her. Sudha and her husband do get to be where they think they want to be, but, as this engaging novel develops, it is not quite what they wanted, they realise.In a Better Place is an evocative, engaging novel that will resonate with the reader until long after it is read.
Product Details
Title: | In a Better Place |
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Author: | Bornali Datta |
SKU: | BK0459527 |
EAN: | 9789354351532 |