Intensive Care doctor Aoife Abbey went to work on Christmas Day and four of her patients died. That's normal. It's just part of the job. Every day at University Hospital Coventry she experiences feelings of fear, grief, anger, joy, distraction, disgust and hope. The former 'Secret Doctor' blogger has written about those feelings in her first book, Seven Signs of Life: Stories from an Intensive Care Doctor, which describes what it means to be alive and how it feels to care for the living and the dying. She talks to Kathy about the book, about empathy and why there are no 'fighters' when it comes to medicine.Plus: Kathy and Róisín talk about Derek Scally's call-out to the 'Magdalene men', the women in white at President Trump's State of the Union address and the insanity of suggesting that women should avoid going jogging alone to combat abuse and catcalling from men. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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