MARC details
000 -LEADER |
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008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION |
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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
International Standard Book Number |
9789354351532 |
037 ## - SOURCE OF ACQUISITION |
Terms of availability |
Purchased |
Note |
Current Books,Convent Jn,Ernakulam |
041 ## - LANGUAGE CODE |
Language code of text/sound track or separate title |
English |
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
Classification number |
F |
Item number |
BOR/IN |
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
Personal name |
Bornali Datta |
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT |
Title |
IN A BETTER PLACE : Doctor’s Journey |
250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT |
Edition statement |
1 |
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
Place of publication, distribution, etc. |
New Delhi |
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. |
Bloomsbury |
Date of publication, distribution, etc. |
2022/01/01 |
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
Size of unit |
292 |
500 ## - GENERAL NOTE |
General note |
A doctor's white coat is like an armour against the world. Cool and confident behind it, smiling to reassure nervous patients, while the doctor's own anxieties and uncertainties remain well hidden. In a Better Place takes us to the world behind that self-assured exterior through the lives of Sudha, practising in a busy hospital in the heart of Delhi, her husband, Girish, and their close circle of doctor friends and colleagues. It is a world of sudden crises and long hours in bleak hospital wards, courageous fights to save a life and heartbreak, personal dilemmas and aspirations for a better life, but also the great satisfactions of a job well done. Always there is the pulsating canvas of the city-first the hospital in Delhi, then in England. From minor observations to broader strokes-a doctor evaluating quickly what to do to save a patient, the rusty screech of a screen as it is pulled to give privacy to a patient being given emergency care, to a tea seller near the IIT gate and a dhaba which serves excellent food, the details help us connect to Sudha, Girish, Jai and Sanjay with a rare immediacy. Always, like a good doctor does her patient, Bornali Datta carries the reader along with her. Sudha and her husband do get to be where they think they want to be, but, as this engaging novel develops, it is not quite what they wanted, they realise. |
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Fiction |
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Indic fiction (English) |
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Medical fiction |
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Physicians India Fiction |
942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) |
Koha item type |
Lending |
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Source of classification or shelving scheme |
Dewey Decimal Classification |