Intensive Care
True Stories of Healing, Heartache and Hope from Inside Irish Children's Medicine
$33.46
- Paperback
320 pages
- Release Date
23 December 2025
Summary
IT ALL RESTS ON A STORY. THIS IS ONE YOU WON’T FORGET.
In these pages, Dr Suzanne Crowe opens the doors to a world few ever see: the charged and fragile realm of paediatric intensive care. From her earliest days as a junior doctor to becoming one of Ireland’s leading specialists, she shares extraordinary stories of the children she’s treated, the families who’ve loved them and the moments when life hung by a thread.
But this is not only a book about medicine. It …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781399741064 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1399741063 |
| Author: | Dr Suzanne Crowe |
| Publisher: | Hachette Books Ireland |
| Imprint: | Hachette Books Ireland |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 23 December 2025 |
| Weight: | 389g |
| Dimensions: | 230mm x 152mm x 26mm |
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Critics Review
Crowe writes with breathtaking matter of factness .. Her account of her slow emergence from all-encompassing grief makes for harrowing reading * Irish Independent *
Crowe is powerful in her exactitude about the fear and uncertainty a career in medicine creates and the many times she wanted to quit … gruelling truth of what it takes to save the lives of all involved * Irish Times *
About The Author
Dr Suzanne Crowe
Suzanne Crowe grew up in Bray, County Wicklow, and studied medicine at Trinity College Dublin. She went on to train in Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine and practices mostly with children.
She is currently a consultant in paediatric intensive care medicine at Children’s Health Ireland in Crumlin, Ireland’s largest acute paediatric teaching hospital, and president of the Irish Medical Council. She has a passionate interest in children’s rights, especially in terms of health and social care, sits on several charity boards including LGBT Ireland and Cheshire Ireland, and has a regular column in the Irish Independent in which she writes about healthcare and child-related topics.
She is a widow with five children, one of whom - Beatrice - died shortly after she was born. Beatrice was Suzanne’s major inspiration to work in intensive care for children.
Suzanne lives in Dublin and Intensive Care is her first book.
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