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18 best books for nurses about grief, death and loss

The Nurse Break

Several days before Christmas 2003, John Gregory Dunne and Joan Didion saw their only daughter, Quintana, fall ill. For most of human history, death was a common, ever-present possibility. A stunning book of electric honesty and passion. At first they thought it was flu, then pneumonia, then complete sceptic shock.

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Firestorm

The Nurse Break

On Saturday 18th January 2003 a freak and devastating firestorm tore through my city. As was to be the case throughout the disaster, communication was a real problem, and the only way we had any idea of the magnitude of what was unfolding, was from the paramedics and public that presented. Republished article of The Nurse Path.

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