TY - JOUR T1 - Books: <em>Breaking &amp; Mending: A Junior Doctor’s Stories of Compassion &amp; Burnout</em> JF - British Journal of General Practice JO - Br J Gen Pract SP - 82 LP - 82 DO - 10.3399/bjgp20X707993 VL - 70 IS - 691 AU - Fiona Baskett Y1 - 2020/02/01 UR - http://bjgp.org/content/70/691/82.abstract N2 - Joanna Cannon Wellcome Collection, 2019, HB, 176pp, £10.99, 978-1788160575Any doctor who reads Breaking &amp; Mending, Joanna Cannon’s memoir of life as a junior doctor, will find something that both resonates and educates. In candid detail she charts her progress from medical school, through the maelstrom of a busy A&amp;E department, to walking the lonely hospital corridors at night. In a series of vignettes we observe her kindness, whether she is holding the hand of a dying patient or carefully measuring how to deliver bad news. However, her frank admission that ‘compassion is something to … ER -