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Breathtaking by Rachel Clarke — WisdomDeck honest review
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Breathtaking

by Rachel Clarke

Inside an NHS hospital in the first COVID wave: fear, improvisation, deaths without family, courage. A doctor's immediate record.

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  1. Witness matters.
  2. Care under impossible conditions.
  3. Remember the workers.

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