I am a doctor! About those who put on a superhero mask every day

What do doctors feel when they save people's lives? Joanna Cannon, author and psychiatrist, is not afraid to talk about her own vulnerability and mistakes. She will take you through hospital wards and tell you about the patients she has met in the line of duty. Each of her stories vividly shows that patients and doctors are also people deserving of respect and compassion, and calls for a humane attitude towards each other. Medicine is not limited to scalpels and defibrillators; the author explains how important it is to be there for a dying patient in the last hours of their life and how often one correctly or incorrectly chosen word can play a huge role in the patient's well-being. Despite all the obstacles that sometimes seemed insurmountable to Joanna, she still remained in medicine, finding a specialty that turned out to be her calling.