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A Life of Breath (Book 3)
Paperback
Mystery & ThrillerGeneral Fiction
ISBN13: 9781835387665
Publisher: Maple Publishers
Published: Nov 21 2025
Pages: 464
Weight: 1.36
Height: 0.94 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
In book 1 you met the young doctor from his first day of life as a junior doctor and the senior consultant at the end of his career, struck down with Covid.
Heart-warming stories, pathos and tragedy have followed during his career amidst a crumbling NHS. In book 2 we followed both his middle years and his period of hospitalisation with Covid Pneumonia, culminating in him being taken to ICU and put on a life support machine.
This final story-line commences on a long and winding white road, where Jamie eventually meets a giant snowy owl called Peter, in front of the Pearly Gates. Is this his real end, or anaesthetic fuelled flash-back dreams? The reader must decide for themselves.
In the parallel timeline, you follow snapshots of events that coloured his consultant career as he progressed from a junior consultant to leading one of the largest and most successful Severe Asthma Services in Europe. Will he retire in time to avoid getting himself in to political trouble, that might see him disciplined for his outspoken attacks on the modern financially-motivated management of the Health Service in the 21st century?
The reader, should laugh and cry in equal measure, whilst experiencing the occasional cringe at the raw truth of Jamie's story of a career in hospital medicine. In presenting this work to the reader, the author is painfully aware that the public has perhaps fallen out of love, with hospital doctors over the last twenty years or more and he hope is to redress some of this, by showing you the heart and soul (warts and all) that shone, from a doctor dedicated to patient care.
Although a novel and written as fiction, the personal events that form this book are based loosely on the skeleton of the author's medical career. Characters and specific events are fictionalised and do not represent any individual living or deceased.
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