Love reading? Try one of our Book groups
The library has not one but two book groups! We really hope you would be able to join us.
Our first book club is run in collaboration with Engagement and Wellbeing and meets in person at either the Library or at Health and Wellbeing over lunchtimes every month and our second book club meets every other month online via Microsoft Teams. Our book groups provide an opportunity to meet other readers in the Trust and discuss fiction and non-fiction related to clinical themes and wellbeing. All colleagues are welcome to come along and join the discussion and you're more than welcome to attend both. If you would like further information please contact rgh-tr.libraryhealthcare@nhs.net.
Our first book club is run in collaboration with Engagement and Wellbeing and meets in person at either the Library or at Health and Wellbeing over lunchtimes every month and our second book club meets every other month online via Microsoft Teams. Our book groups provide an opportunity to meet other readers in the Trust and discuss fiction and non-fiction related to clinical themes and wellbeing. All colleagues are welcome to come along and join the discussion and you're more than welcome to attend both. If you would like further information please contact rgh-tr.libraryhealthcare@nhs.net.
Memoires of a Red Cross Doctor: Better to Light a Candle,’ by Frank Ryding
Join us on Monday 27th March 2023, 5-6pm, on MS Teams. Copies are available from the library - just ask at the counter. To reserve a copy please email rgh-tr.libraryhealthcare@nhs.net Synonymous with conflict and humanitarian aid, the mandate of the International Red Cross (ICRC) is to protect the wounded victims of war, civilians, prisoners and refugees alike. In Memoirs of a Red Cross Doctor, Frank Ryding recounts the missions he undertook with the Red Cross during a career spanning 35 years. Having worked as a doctor in many of the world’s war zones and natural disasters from the 'killing field' era of Cambodia, to Afghanistan, Chechnya, Somalia, Pakistan and Sudan, his is an account of observation and also personal experience, contrasting the serious, the terrifying, the heartrending and the heartwarming. It is also the story of the victims who suffer the consequences of war and disaster. It shows both their courage and that of the aid agencies sent to help them. As Frank recalls from some Somali graffiti: ''It is better to light a single candle than to curse the darkness." About the author Dr Frank Ryding is an anaesthetist from Hereford who started working for the International Red Cross in 1981. His Red Cross experiences were made into several programmes for BBC Radio 4. Letters from the Front Line and the programme, Friday Lives, won the Sony Award for Best Feature. He was awarded an OBE for Services to the Red Cross and the campaign to ban landmines. Outside medicine, he writes plays, runs a hospital choir and lectures on architecture. In another life, he spent two years on the ice on two expeditions with the British Antarctic Survey anaesthetising elephant seals. |
Do you love to switch off with a good book? Reading is a great way to unwind and improve wellbeing. Engagement & Wellbeing and the Library have teamed up to launch our new book group. What would you like to read? Vote for which book you would like to read and discuss at this link:
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