Random Home presents the audiobook release of Also Human being by Caroline Elton, go through by Rachel Bavidge.

Doctors will be the people we use when we fall sick. They will be the people we trust with this lives, and with the lives of those we love. Yet who are able to doctors use at moments of stress, or when their own working lives breakdown?

What does it take to confront death, disease, distress and suffering every day? To work in a health care system that is extended to breaking point? To carry the about Also Human being: The Inner Lives of Doctors responsibility of earning decisions that can irrevocably change someone’s life – or perhaps end it? And how do doctors cope with their personal questions and worries, when they are anticipated to have all the answers?

Caroline Elton is a psychologist who specialises in helping doctors. For over twenty years she has listened as doctors have unburdened themselves of the stresses of their careers: the obstetrician whose personal fertility treatment failed; the trainee oncologist who found herself unable to treat patients experiencing the disease that wiped out her dad; the brilliant neurosurgeon struggling to advance her career in an environment that was hostile to females. Drawing on incredible case research and decades of work assisting clinicians, Also Human being presents a provocative, perceptive and deeply humane examination of the modern medical profession.

‘Crucial and timely.’ Atul Gawande

‘Haunting, beautiful and urgent.’ Johann Hari