Be Patient: Life, loss and laughter from behind the hospital curtain (Hardcover) Memories of a conflicted Caribbean

Memories of a conflicted Caribbean childhood haunt the four fictions that Rhys wrote during her extraordinary years as an exile in 1920s Paris and later in England

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Be Patient: Life, loss and laughter from behind the hospital curtain (Hardcover) Memories of a conflicted CaribbeanIt's the sleepover from hell that no one prepared you for. The doctors have gone to medical school, the nurses have gone to uni but what about the patients? Be Patient is a warm, darkly comic account of Tilly's desperate search for a diagnosis, against the backdrop of a hilariously funny, heartfelt and, at times, shocking insight into patient life. A 'medical mystery' for over 20 years, Tilly has spent a lifetime navigating GP waiting rooms, A&E