I requested this book for review and was so excited to read it. By the time it was finally approved and added to my shelf I was given less than 24 hours to read the book and therefore was unable to read the book. I was so very disappointed. I really wanted to read this book. Based on the reviews the book sounds like it is an amazing read. I wish I would have had the opportunity to read it. If there is a way that I can be given access to the book before the publication date I would love to read it.

I loved this book. The writing is excellent and the pacing is perfect. The book is touching, but with some very well placed humour. The book also functions as a great history of modern emergency medicine. Impressively, Dr. Stewart had many great accomplishments which he described without the least bit of bragging. I strongly recommend this book for anyone interested in the history of medicine. Thank you to Netgalley and Nimbus Publishing for the advance reader copy.

This was a really interesting memoir by one of the most influential people in the field of emergency medicine. I hadn’t realised how basic emergency medicine had been until the 70s. I think we take for granted how much the modern world has changed the way we access healthcare and how far medicine has come in the last 50 years.

This book certainly lent more on the biography side, spending lots of time exploring Dr Stewart’s early life and how it impacted on his adult life. I wouldn’t necessarily recommend this to fans of ‘This is going to hurt’ or ‘this book might save your life’ it’s definitely not as colloquial or quippy. However, I would recommend it to fans of non-fiction more broadly.