Tuesday 22
nd
November - Currie Rugby Club - 7.30 pm
Gavin Francis
Your Good Health”
Gavin is an award-winning writer and a GP working in urban and rural
communities. He saw how Covid affected every walk of life: the
anxious teenager, the isolated care home resident, the struggling
furloughed worker, the homeless ex-prisoner, united by vulnerability in
the face of a global disaster.
And he saw how the cost of the virus was measured not just in infections,
or deaths, or ITU beds, but in the consequences of the measures taken
against it.
His book, Intensive Care, gave a deeply personal account of eighteen
months spent caring for a society in crisis. And in telling this story he
revealed others: of loneliness and hope, illness and recovery, and what we
can achieve when we care for each other.
His latest publication, Recovery, illustrates that, when it comes to illness,
sometimes the end is just the beginning.
Recovery and convalescence are words that exist at the periphery of our
lives - until we are forced to contend with what they really mean.Gavin views
medicine as 'the alliance of science and kindness' and explores how and
why we get better, revealing the many shapes recovery takes.”
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Friday 11
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- Tuesday 22
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November