A Medic's Mind is an all-inclusive read - you'll laugh, you'll tear up, you'll learn.
As a nurse, I work alongside some amazing medics and have always said I couldn't do their job. Healthcare as a whole has opportunity to see horrible (and amazing) things, but medics are the ones at the absolute front of it all. Author Matthew Heneghan takes us straight into his life and struggles right from page one - first as a military, then civilian, medic throughout Canada.
It's so honest and heart-wrenching and straightforward. He's also a very talented writer.
While it's often hard to review memoirs, this one takes no effort at all to highly recommend.
September is National Suicide Prevention Month. It's so important to reduce the stigma of mental health issues that lead to this devastating act. Heneghan brings forward his reality of depression, alcoholism, PTSD, suicidal ideation, grief and anxiety in his book and am glad to have take-aways from it to apply in my own life and practice.
Thank you to Wintertickle Press for my giveaway win copy of this excellent book. Recommended!