The Frequency of Us: A BBC2 Between the Covers book club pick

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Although it is unknown how many patients will be harmed from diagnostic errors, our previous work 17 suggests that about one-half of diagnostic errors have the potential to lead to severe harm. While this is only an estimate and does not imply all those affected will actually have harm, this risk potentially translates to about 6 million outpatients per year. Additionally, while the contribution of the two cancers to the overall estimation was small, we believed it was important to include them to show their relative contribution. This is because delayed cancer diagnosis is believed to be one of the most harmful and costly types of diagnostic error in the outpatient setting and its significance has become apparent not only in malpractice claims but also in retrospective studies of consecutive cancer cases, surveys and studies of failures to follow-up abnormal test results. 5 , 7–12 In many of these studies, lung cancer and CRC are the most common cancers for which diagnosis is delayed. We get alternate timelines - One of the past of Will, whose memories of WWII is somehow very different from what others around him know to be true, especially when it comes to his wife. This was a book that I didn’t want to put down. The story is told in the present and the past, between 1938 and 1942, leading up to the bombing of Bath, where Will lives. The plot has you second-guessing everything you think you know. One minute you are convinced Elsa was real, the next you are not so sure, could this be all in Will’s head who suffered a breakdown and PTSD after the bombing? Laura has some mental health issues brought on by issues with her father when she was a child. She suffers from depression and anxiety and is grateful to be given the job to assess Will, though she finds him a little scary and hard work at first.

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In Second World War Bath, young, naïve wireless engineer Will meets Austrian refugee Elsa Klein: she is sophisticated, witty and worldly, and at last his life seems to make sense . . . until, soon after, the couple’s home is bombed, and Will awakes from the blast to find himself alone. Are we where we truly should be? Where we belong with those who love us absolutely? These questions are at the heart of ‘The Frequency of Us’, a novel that defies genres and offers in one sweep romance, elements of the supernatural and hints of a ghost. Houston Veterans Affairs Center for Innovations in Quality, Effectiveness and Safety, Michael E. DeBakey Veterans Affairs Medical Center and the Section of Health Services Research, Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USAFunding Studies mentioned in this paper were supported by an NIH K23 Career Development Award (K23CA125585), the VA National Center of Patient Safety, and Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (R18HS017820 and R18HS17244-02). HS and ANDM were supported in part by the Houston VA Center for Innovations in Quality, Effectiveness and Safety (CIN 13-413). Laura is a likeable and interesting character. She has her own problems and feels realistic and well-rounded as a person. I think author Keith Stuart shows the effects of ill mental health in an honest, frank and fresh way because although we see how it has affected Laura, she is still not defined by this. I love dual timeline stories and this is one of the best I’ve read. It’s told through Will’s journals from the late 1930s, and from Laura’s point of view in 2007. The characters are realistic, flawed humans that are juggling and plodding on through life. Neither has had it easy. With Will sometimes living in the past and Laura still dealing with her past which is having a negative impact on her present. What is it?’ I groaned, turning away from her, pulling the blankets up and over my head. She switched on her bedside lamp.

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Doubts assail Laura as she hits one dead end after another. It is just one more failure in a life full of disappointments. Will’s collection of old wireless radios plays a big part in the book, but it is not until about three quarters of the way through, that the title of the book starts to make sense. There are many twists, and just as you think everything is sorted – some new information comes to light.This is still a tale told by a nearly ninety-year-old man with signs of dementia to a woman who dropped off an antidepressant cliff edge and is hitting every withdrawal symptom on the way down. We are not credible witnesses to our own lives.” b>Like I said at the start, I so enjoyed the audiobook of this book until the climax - the climax was over the top and the introduction of a character at this time somehow made the whole plot seem.. off. What do you think would have happened to Laura if she hadn’t escaped from the explosion/anomaly at the climax of the book? I think the middle was just a bit too slow and slightly confusing. The ending fit together really well, but I felt like there was a lot left unsaid.

The Frequency of Us: A BBC2 Between the Covers book club pick

In The Frequency of Us the two central figures are as unalike as two denizens of Bath could be. Will Emerson, a pioneer radio engineer in the late 1930s, lives with his wife Elsa Klein, a Jewish refugee from Nazi Vienna.

And it very much is a mystery. My aim with the book was to tell a story about love and trauma, which looks at how elastic our memories are – how they change as we get older, and also how people close to us may have very different memories of a particular event. But I also really liked the idea of a story which felt like it could be supernatural or science fiction – things happen in the house that make Laura feel she is being watched, but is it a ghost, her own anxieties or something else? No one has heard of Elsa Klein. They say he was never married. Seventy years later, Laura is a social worker battling her way out of depression and off medication. Her new case is a strange, isolated old man whose house hasn't changed since the war. A man who insists his wife vanished many, many years before. Everyone thinks he's suffering dementia. But Laura begins to suspect otherwise . . . How does Laura’s anxiety contribute to her quest to solve Will’s mystery? Is it a help as well as a hindrance? The Elsa in the journals is such a remarkable, wonderful cosmopolitan woman – a gifted pianist, a lover of arts, and an attractive Austrian Jewess, who escaped to Britain before the war. It is no wonder that shy Will fell madly in love with her. Like Will and Laura, you – as the reader – also believe that she must be real. The world would surely be a much poorer place without her in it. But how could she disappear so completely?