What We Carry
What We Carry is a quietly honest memoir about life inside modern healthcare - and the invisible weight carried by those who work within it.
Drawing on a career that spans frontline nursing, trauma care, operating theatres, and healthcare leadership, Tom Warrington reflects on the moments that shape clinicians long after the shift ends. From early mistakes and near-misses to leadership decisions that linger long after they're made, this book explores what it really means to care for others inside systems under constant pressure.
This is not a hero narrative, and it is not a complaint. It is a record.
Through candid, compassionate storytelling, What We Carry examines how responsibility accumulates quietly, how resilience is often confused with silence, and how good people adapt themselves to flawed systems - often at personal cost. It looks at leadership from the ground up, patient safety beyond policies, and the emotional labour that rarely makes it into incident reports or performance dashboards.
Written with clarity and restraint, this book will resonate with:
Healthcare professionals who recognise the culture, compromises, and quiet burdens of the job
Leaders seeking to understand how decisions land on the frontline
Readers outside healthcare who want an honest insight into what it costs - and why it matters
Above all, What We Carry is about responsibility, humanity, and the things we take home with us when the uniform comes off.
Because long after the policies change and the spreadsheets are updated, what we carry still matters.
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