Trust Me, I'm a (Junior) Doctor - Couverture souple

Pemberton, Max

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0340962054 ISBN 13 : 9780340962053

Editeur : Hodder Paperbacks, 2008

Synopsis

If you're going to be ill, it's best to avoid the first Wednesday in August. This is the day when junior doctors graduate to their first placements and begin to face having to put into practice what they have spent the last six years learning. Starting on the evening before he begins work as a doctor, this book charts Max Pemberton's touching and funny journey through his first year in the NHS. Progressing from youthful idealism to frank bewilderment, Max realises how little his job is about 'saving people' and how much of his time is taken up by signing forms and trying to figure out all the important things no one has explained yet -- for example, the crucial question of how to tell whether someone is dead or not. Along the way, Max and his fellow fledgling doctors grapple with the complicated questions of life, love, mental health and how on earth to make time to do your laundry. All Creatures Great and Small meets Bridget Jones's Diary, this is a humorous and accessible peek into a world which you'd normally need a medical degree to witness.Max Pemberton is a doctor. He writes a weekly column for the Daily Telegraph.

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur :

Max Pemberton is a practicing doctor. As well as a degree in Medicine, he completed a degree in Anthropology for which he was awarded a first and a prize for academic excellence. Max has worked in a broad range of medicine, from geriatrics, adult psychiatry, surgery and paediatric palliative care. He is also a columnist for the Daily Telegraph and Reader's Digest. In 2010, he was named Public Educator of the Year 2010 by the Royal College of Psychiatrists.

Revue de presse :

Reads like Scrubs: The Blog... This diary-style account of Pemberton's first year on the wards is funny and awful in equal measure. (Observer)

Very funny and frank. (Independent)

Painfully funny. (Boris Johnson)

Reading his absurdly funny, beautifully observed, day to day, horror stories from the wards, made me laugh and shudder (Maureen Lipman)

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Hodder Paperbacks
• Date d'édition: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0340962054
• ISBN 13: 9780340962053
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 304