‘Wonderful – insightful and compassionate’ Dr Richard Shepherd, bestselling author of Unnatural Causes
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They can’t teach you how to be a doctor at medical school . . .

As a junior doctor, Dr Tom Templeton learnt how to do his job from books, professors and other doctors and nurses. But the most important lessons – tolerance, kindness, resilience and bravery – he learnt from his patients.

Here, he shares the stories of just 34, and how they changed his life while he was helping theirs.

From a stillbirth to the old woman who lived a century, from the inhabitants of stately homes to the homeless, these stories whether heartwarming or heartbreaking, funny or tragic, are always inspiring and illuminating.

We are all patients, but discover for the first time how the doctors see us . . .
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‘An admirably told story’ Spectator

‘Informative and personal, humbling and healing’ Observer

Discover the truth, hurt, heartbreak, life and death and everything in between through 34 Patients

‘Wonderful – insightful and compassionate’ Dr Richard Shepherd, author of UNNATURAL CAUSES
‘Informative and personal, humbling and healing’ Observer

AS SEEN IN THE GUARDIAN & THE TIMES
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We ask so much of our doctors.

To heal. To trust. To care. To listen.

To cure someone’s pain. To deliver a baby safely into the world. To give the good news that will change someone’s life.

Doctors know our deepest secrets, our private worries and our most vulnerable moments. But they listen to all of us, and under their gaze we are all equally worthy of help.

34 Patients is the breathtaking and uplifting memoir of a doctor who dares to look closer at a crowded waiting room, and value each soul and story he encounters.

Through stories of the patients he has helped and lost, and those who have changed him forever, Dr Tom Templeton weaves a profound and moving portrait of humanity, asking us to treat all with compassion.