The gastrointestinal bug Clostridium difficile is running rampant through hospitals in the UK, mainly because hygiene standards are too low. Antibiotics are also ‘inappropriately’ given, and doctors are failing to report outbreaks, the Healthcare...
It all began with a fever. So begins The Year of Magical Thinking, Joan Didion’s extraordinary account of the events of 2003 and 2004, and memoir of her marriage to writer John Gregory Dunne.