How to Treat People
A Nurse's Notes

This is a medical memoir, a genre I am thrilled is being populated by lots of moving and informative books. The author, Molly Case studied English Literature and creative writing at Bath University and while there worked as a care worker in a residential facility for people with Alzheimer's. She dis......more

A short and sweet nursing memoir that is peppered with stories from the frontline and a little history and philosophy of nursing throughout the ages. I enjoyed this book, although the author is still fairly newly qualified, she writes with a poetic tone and this is what makes it so readable. The aut......more

I thought the language of this book was overly flowery - that put me off at times and it seemed self-conscious. The stories themselves were really interesting and moving. But I also felt that some bits may have been a little embellished. I would have liked a section at the end that explained how she......more

Molly deftly describes and humanises nursing. Personal and professional stories interweave, culminating in heart-wrenching moments, and sometimes funny ones too. There are moments of pure poetry and yet also a truthful, plain quality to the writing as she does not shy away from the realities of nurs......more

I generally like medical writing, but something about this memoir wasn’t right for me. Maybe I expected it (due to the title) to be more about the connection nursing allows with patients, or about empathy...and while it did have aspects of those more metaphorical themes, it focused much more on lite......more