Partnership Working in Public Health
David J. Hunter and Neil Perkins
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The UK government's reforms of the NHS and public health system require partnerships if they are to...
The Patient Paradox: Why Sexed Up Medicine is Bad for Your Health
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Welcome to the world of sexed-up medicine, where patients have been turned into customers, and...
Persons, Parts and Property: How Should We Regulate Human Tissue in the 21st Century?
Jonathan Herring, Imogen Goold, Kate Greasley and Loane Skene
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The debate over whether human bodies and their parts should be governed by the laws of property has...
One Step at a Time: Getting Through Chemotherapy with Breast Cancer
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"I was first drawn to working in oncology while I was a student nurse at St Thomas' Hospital in...
Hospitals of London
Rob Higgins, Veronika Chambers and Fred Chambers
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Since the eighteenth century, the hospitals of London have played a leading role in the development...
AJaneClark (3975 KP) rated Trust Me, I'm A (Junior) Doctor in Books
Oct 26, 2020
I found this to be a very easy read, demolishing the pages in a day (ok, I was sat round a pool with beer on tap, but still...) It was a well written and thought provoking account with recurring appearances of his housemates and colleagues. It humanises the role of a doctor and the struggles of long shifts balanced with maintaining a social life, family responsibility and just trying to exist.
Pemberton details how the NHS operates, and the trials and frustrations of a Junior doctor launched into frustrating, physically, mentally and emotionally draining role in medicine.
Reading this gave me a new found admiration for those on the front line working round the clock, whilst combating the very real frustrations of red tape, senior doctors and mental health.
I would recommend to any reader who enjoys this genre!
AJaneClark (3975 KP) rated In Stitches: The Highs and Lows of Life as an A&E Doctor in Books
Jan 12, 2020
The book is written as a series of blog style entries that work as chapters. Dr Nick expresses the trials and tribulations, the highs and the lows, the many emotions faced by an overworked and unfunded group of individuals. However, he also goes as far as to share his thoughts on the unfairness of other staff working in hospitals, the failures underpinning the mental health support due to lack of funding, the idiotic ways governments try to cut spending without considering the impacts on the staff and individuals requiring access to services and the devastation that alcohol and drug abuse is having on the health system!
These individuals go through a lot of abuse, and work long long hours, are forced to move around frequently, face being sued daily, and still work hard despite a lack of funding and resources to ensure that people are nursed back to health, or are given the support they need should a loved one not make it, and still be expected to smile! NHS staff are heroes to me
The Doctor's Kitchen: Supercharge your Health with 100 Delicious Everyday Recipes
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`I'm just a straight-talking NHS doctor lending my unbiased opinion on healthy eating and showing...
Lines in the Sand: Collected Journalism
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'By miles the most brilliant journalist of our age' Lynn Barber 'A golden writer' Andrew Marr A. A....
The Tidal Zone
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Adam is a stay-at-home dad who is also working on a history of the bombing and rebuilding of...