16 Best memoir books like The Language of Kindness: A Nurse's Story by Christie Watson

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The Language of Kindness: A Nurse's Story

By: Christie Watson

4.12

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Christie Watson spent twenty years as a nurse, and in this intimate, poignant, and remarkably power…

"We will meet people on the way: patients, relatives and staff - people you may recognize already. Because we are all nursed at some point in our lives. We are all nurses."

-Christie Watson, The Language of Kindness: A Nurse's Story

"We will meet people on the way: patients, relatives and staff - people you may recognize already. Because we are all nursed at some point in our lives. We are all nurses."

-Christie Watson, The Language of Kindness: A Nurse's Story

"We will meet people on the way: patients, relatives and staff - people you may recognize already. Because we are all nursed at some point in our lives. We are all nurses."

-Christie Watson, The Language of Kindness: A Nurse's Story

"It is impossible to describe exactly what I learn, though I know it lies somewhere between science and art. It is all about the smallest details and understanding how they make the biggest difference."

-Christie Watson, The Language of Kindness: A Nurse's Story

If you liked the memoir plot in The Language of Kindness: A Nurse's Story by Christie Watson , here is a list of 16 books like this:

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1. This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor

By: Adam Kay

4.40

Format: 285 pages, Kindle Edition

Welcome to the life of a junior doctor: 97-hour weeks, life and death decisions, a constant tsunami… read more

Similar categories in Adam Kay's This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor book and Christie Watson's The Language of Kindness: A Nurse's Story

  • biography
  • memoir
  • medical
  • medicine
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"From the most insignificant of actions can come the most serious of consequences."

-Adam Kay, This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor

"Even if I wanted to have an affair, I honestly think I'd be too tired to unzip my trousers"

-Adam Kay, This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor

"I’m all for explaining terminology as we go along, but if you don’t know what a stethoscope is, this is probably a book to regift. "

-Adam Kay, This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor

"You work yourself to exhaustion, pushing yourself beyond what could be reasonably expected of you, and end up constantly feeling like you don’t know"

-Adam Kay, This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor

2. I Wasn't Strong Like This When I Started Out: True Stories of Becoming a Nurse

By: Lee Gutkind

3.49

Format: None pages, Paperback

"I Wasn't Strong Like This When I Started Out," a collection of true narratives, reflects the dynam… read more

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3. Confessions of a School Nurse (The Confessions Series)

By: Michael Alexander

4.05

Format: 224 pages,

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4. Your Life in My Hands

By: Rachel Clarke

3.85

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

'I am a junior doctor. It is 4 a.m. I have run arrest calls, treated life-threatening bleeding, hel… read more

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5. Where Does It Hurt?: What the Junior Doctor Did Next

By: None

3.74

Format: 646 pages, Paperback

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6. Critical Care: A New Nurse Faces Death, Life, and Everything in Between

By: Theresa Brown

4.18

Format: 411 pages,

At my job, people die, writes Theresa Brown, capturing both the burden and the singular importance … read more

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7. Twas the Nightshift Before Christmas

By: Adam Kay

4.12

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found here. Twas The Nightshift Before Christm… read more

Similar categories in Adam Kay's Twas the Nightshift Before Christmas book and Christie Watson's The Language of Kindness: A Nurse's Story

  • biography
  • memoir
  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Who's that you can see in his suit of magenta? It's me - I've been soaked head to toe in placenta."

-Adam Kay, Twas the Nightshift Before Christmas

"Full marks to the anaesthetist wearing a badge that says; 'He sees you when you're sleeping, he knows when you're awake'."

-Adam Kay, Twas the Nightshift Before Christmas

"ENT is commonly known as Early Nights and Tennis - a good choice of specialty if you like a quiet Christmas. See also, dermaholiday."

-Adam Kay, Twas the Nightshift Before Christmas

"I ask why. then remember why most people do most things, and thus find myself introduced - at the tender age of twenty-four - to the sexual kink of mummification."

-Adam Kay, Twas the Nightshift Before Christmas

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8. Undoctored: The Story of a Medic Who Ran Out of Patients

By: Adam Kay

3.91

Format: 274 pages, Hardcover

Adam Kay's secret diary from his time as a junior doctor This is Going to Hurt was the publishing p… read more

Similar categories in Adam Kay's Undoctored: The Story of a Medic Who Ran Out of Patients book and Christie Watson's The Language of Kindness: A Nurse's Story

  • biography
  • memoir
  • medical
  • medicine
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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9. Unnatural Causes: The Life and Many Deaths of Britain's Top Forensic Pathologist

By: Richard Shepherd

4.33

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

As the UK's top forensic pathologist, Dr Richard Shepherd has spent a lifetime uncovering the secre… read more

Similar categories in Richard Shepherd's Unnatural Causes: The Life and Many Deaths of Britain's Top Forensic Pathologist book and Christie Watson's The Language of Kindness: A Nurse's Story

  • biography
  • memoir
  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Although it is my job to be certain, I was unable that day, and am still unable, to escape a greater certainty: that there are always other possibilities."

-Richard Shepherd, Unnatural Causes: The Life and Many Deaths of Britain's Top Forensic Pathologist

"Truth is based upon knowledge. So, of course, it can be compromised by incomplete knowledge. As a doctor I sought truth through facts. As a pathologist I was now learning that truth could be directly…"

-Richard Shepherd, Unnatural Causes: The Life and Many Deaths of Britain's Top Forensic Pathologist

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10. Dear NHS: 100 Stories to Say Thank You

By: Adam Kay

4.24

Format: 408 pages, Hardcover

Created and edited by Adam Kay (author of multi-million best seller 'This is Going to Hurt'), 'DEAR… read more

Similar categories in Adam Kay's Dear NHS: 100 Stories to Say Thank You book and Christie Watson's The Language of Kindness: A Nurse's Story

  • memoir
  • health
  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"If there had been a cost for calling an ambulance, I wouldn't have done it. I couldn't have afforded it. I would have let myself die."

-Adam Kay, Dear NHS: 100 Stories to Say Thank You

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11. In Two Minds: Stories of murder, justice and recovery from a forensic psychiatrist

By: Sohom Das

3.90

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Shocking, eye-opening and grimly fascinating, these are the true stories, patients and cases that h… read more

Similar categories in Sohom Das's In Two Minds: Stories of murder, justice and recovery from a forensic psychiatrist book and Christie Watson's The Language of Kindness: A Nurse's Story

  • medical
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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12. War Doctor: Surgery on the Front Line

By: David Nott

4.54

Format: 355 pages, Hardcover

For more than 25 years, surgeon David Nott has volunteered in some of the world’s most dangerous co… read more

Similar categories in David Nott's War Doctor: Surgery on the Front Line book and Christie Watson's The Language of Kindness: A Nurse's Story

  • biography
  • memoir
  • medical
  • medicine
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"As the Koran says in Surah 5:32: whoever saves a life, it shall be as though he had saved the lives of all mankind."

-David Nott, War Doctor: Surgery on the Front Line

"The boy's death turned me into a person marked by war: it was the Sarajevo equivalent of a campaign medal, although not one to wear with pride."

-David Nott, War Doctor: Surgery on the Front Line

"I remember the three of us – Mum, Dad and me – all being in tears as we looked at my grades and considered the consequences. I went out into the garden and tried to make sense of it all. Yes, I could…"

-David Nott, War Doctor: Surgery on the Front Line

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13. The Prison Doctor

By: Amanda Brown

4.01

Format: 224 pages, Kindle Edition

Dr Amanda Brown has treated inmates in the UK’s most infamous prisons – first in young offenders’ i… read more

Similar categories in Amanda Brown's The Prison Doctor book and Christie Watson's The Language of Kindness: A Nurse's Story

  • biography
  • memoir
  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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14. The Language of Kindness: A Nurse's Story

By: Christie Watson

4.12

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Christie Watson spent twenty years as a nurse, and in this intimate, poignant, and remarkably power… read more

Similar categories in Christie Watson's The Language of Kindness: A Nurse's Story book and Christie Watson's The Language of Kindness: A Nurse's Story

  • biography
  • health care
  • memoir
  • health
  • medical
  • medicine
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • nursing
  • audiobook
"We will meet people on the way: patients, relatives and staff - people you may recognize already. Because we are all nursed at some point in our lives. We are all nurses."

-Christie Watson, The Language of Kindness: A Nurse's Story

"It is impossible to describe exactly what I learn, though I know it lies somewhere between science and art. It is all about the smallest details and understanding how they make the biggest difference."

-Christie Watson, The Language of Kindness: A Nurse's Story

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15. Hard Pushed: A Midwife’s Story

By: Leah Hazard

4.16

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

________________No sleep for twenty hours. No food for ten. And a ward full of soon-to-be mothers… … read more

Similar categories in Leah Hazard's Hard Pushed: A Midwife’s Story book and Christie Watson's The Language of Kindness: A Nurse's Story

  • biography
  • memoir
  • health
  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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16. Duty of Care: One NHS Doctor's Story of the COVID-19 Crisis

By: Dominic Pimenta

4.10

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

The first book to tell the full story of the COVID-19 pandemic, from an NHS doctor working inside h… read more

Similar categories in Dominic Pimenta's Duty of Care: One NHS Doctor's Story of the COVID-19 Crisis book and Christie Watson's The Language of Kindness: A Nurse's Story

  • biography
  • memoir
  • health
  • medical
  • medicine
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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17. The Secret Doctor: What Really Goes On Inside Your Doctor's Surgery

By: Max Skittle

3.54

Format: 328 pages, Kindle Edition

A powerful first-hand account of working for the NHS, both before and during the COVID-19 epidemic.… read more

Similar categories in Max Skittle's The Secret Doctor: What Really Goes On Inside Your Doctor's Surgery book and Christie Watson's The Language of Kindness: A Nurse's Story

  • biography
  • memoir
  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Fighting for Your Life: A Paramedic's Story by Lysa Walder

18. Fighting for Your Life: A Paramedic's Story

By: Lysa Walder

4.14

Format: None pages, Audible Audio

A teenage boy lies on the pavement, bleeding to death from a stab wound; a distraught mom watches, … read more

Similar categories in Lysa Walder's Fighting for Your Life: A Paramedic's Story book and Christie Watson's The Language of Kindness: A Nurse's Story

  • biography
  • health care
  • memoir
  • health
  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • nursing
  • audiobook
"Najgorsza w tym wszystkim jest zwykła samotność. Możesz żyć samotnie w nieskazitelnie czystym otoczeniu, mając pod ręką wszystko, czego potrzebujesz. I nadal możesz być zupełnie odizolowany."

-Lysa Walder, Fighting for Your Life: A Paramedic's Story

"Czasami ludzie są samotni i potrzebują jedynie kilkuminutowej rozmowy. Nie jesteśmy tu po to, by być doradcami czy mediatorami: naszym zadaniem jest pomoc w nagłych wypdakach. Ale czasami aby pomóc, …"

-Lysa Walder, Fighting for Your Life: A Paramedic's Story

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19. Everything that Makes Us Human: Case Notes of a Children's Brain Surgeon

By: Jay Jayamohan

4.39

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Jay Jayamohan makes life and death decisions on a daily basis. That’s because he’s a Consultant Pae… read more

Similar categories in Jay Jayamohan's Everything that Makes Us Human: Case Notes of a Children's Brain Surgeon book and Christie Watson's The Language of Kindness: A Nurse's Story

  • biography
  • memoir
  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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20. Ashes To Admin: Tales from the Caseload of a Council Funeral Officer

By: Evie King

4.37

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

‘I’ve a body out the back for you...' Imagine having that sentence said to you. And then imagine… read more

Similar categories in Evie King's Ashes To Admin: Tales from the Caseload of a Council Funeral Officer book and Christie Watson's The Language of Kindness: A Nurse's Story

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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21. A Nurse's Story: My Life in A&E During the Covid Crisis

By: Louise Curtis

3.97

Format: 286 pages, Kindle Edition

Moving, honest and inspiring – this is a nurse’s true story of life in a busy A&E department during… read more

Similar categories in Louise Curtis's A Nurse's Story: My Life in A&E During the Covid Crisis book and Christie Watson's The Language of Kindness: A Nurse's Story

  • biography
  • health care
  • memoir
  • health
  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook

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