Where Does It Hurt?: What The Junior Doctor Did Next
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The Junior Doctor is back!He's into his second year of medicine, but this time Max is out of the wards and onto the streets, working for the Phoenix Outreach Project.Fuelled by tea and more enthusiasm than experience, he attempts to locate and treat a wide and colourful range of patients that somehow his first year on the wards didn't prepare him for ...from Molly the 80-year-...
The Junior Doctor is back!He's into his second year of medicine, but this time Max is out of the wards and onto the streets, working for the Phoenix Outreach Project.Fuelled by tea and more enthusiasm than experience, he attempts to locate and treat a wide and colourful range of patients that somehow his first year on the wards didn't prepare him for ...from Molly the 80-year-...
Description:
The Junior Doctor is back!He's into his second year of medicine, but this time Max is out of the wards and onto the streets, working for the Phoenix Outreach Project.Fuelled by tea and more enthusiasm than experience, he attempts to locate and treat a wide and colourful range of patients that somehow his first year on the wards didn't prepare him for ...from Molly the 80-year-old drugs mule and God in a Tesco car park, to middle-class mums addicted to appearances and pain killers in equal measure.His friends don't approve of the turn his career is taking, his mother is worried and the public spit at him, but Max is determined to make a difference. Despite warnings that miracles are rare, and that not everyone's life can be turned around, Max is still surprised by those that can be saved.Funny, touching and uplifting, Max goes from innocence to experience via dustbin-shopping-trips without ever losing his humanity.
Review:
'This book will have you crying bucket loads one moment and laughing out loud the next.' -- News of the World 'Pemberton treats a grim subject with warmth and self-deprecating good humour ... equally enlightening sequel. ****' -- Daily Mail Praise for TRUST ME I'M A JUNIOR DOCTOR -- - '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 20080217 'Very funny and frank' -- Independent 20080217 'Painfully funny' -- Boris Johnson 20080217 'Reading his absurdly funny, beautifully observed, day to day, horror stories from the wards, made me laugh and shudder' -- Maureen Lipman 20080217
Author Biography:
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 A&E, geriatrics, adult psychiatry, surgery and paediatric palliative care. He is also a columnist for the Daily Telegraph and Reader's Digest.
The Junior Doctor is back!He's into his second year of medicine, but this time Max is out of the wards and onto the streets, working for the Phoenix Outreach Project.Fuelled by tea and more enthusiasm than experience, he attempts to locate and treat a wide and colourful range of patients that somehow his first year on the wards didn't prepare him for ...from Molly the 80-year-old drugs mule and God in a Tesco car park, to middle-class mums addicted to appearances and pain killers in equal measure.His friends don't approve of the turn his career is taking, his mother is worried and the public spit at him, but Max is determined to make a difference. Despite warnings that miracles are rare, and that not everyone's life can be turned around, Max is still surprised by those that can be saved.Funny, touching and uplifting, Max goes from innocence to experience via dustbin-shopping-trips without ever losing his humanity.
Review:
'This book will have you crying bucket loads one moment and laughing out loud the next.' -- News of the World 'Pemberton treats a grim subject with warmth and self-deprecating good humour ... equally enlightening sequel. ****' -- Daily Mail Praise for TRUST ME I'M A JUNIOR DOCTOR -- - '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 20080217 'Very funny and frank' -- Independent 20080217 'Painfully funny' -- Boris Johnson 20080217 'Reading his absurdly funny, beautifully observed, day to day, horror stories from the wards, made me laugh and shudder' -- Maureen Lipman 20080217
Author Biography:
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 A&E, geriatrics, adult psychiatry, surgery and paediatric palliative care. He is also a columnist for the Daily Telegraph and Reader's Digest.
| Autor | Pemberton, Max |
|---|---|
| Ilmumisaeg | 2010 |
| Kirjastus | Hodder & Stoughton General Division |
| Köide | Pehmekaaneline |
| Bestseller | Ei |
| Lehekülgede arv | 272 |
| Pikkus | 198 |
| Laius | 198 |
| Keel | English |
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