Bedside Stories: Confessions of a Junior Doctor
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Ever wondered what life as a new doctor is really like? On his exhausting journey from medical student, through years with no sleep as a junior doctor and on into psychiatry, Michael Foxton's story crackles with dark humour and authentic energy.
In these pages he paints an unforgettable portrait of the hellish life of the junior doctor: the terror of being left alone with a patient on the first day; wrestling drunks at 3a.m. in A&E ('where the worst possible outcome of every risk you ever took is prominently on display'); persuading schizophrenics to take their medication; suffering at the hands of a tyrannical registrar; battling with alternative therapists; the dread of accidentally killing someone; and the struggle, despite everything, to remain sane and friendly.
Dr Foxton started out with dreams of being like Dirk Bogade in Doctor in the House, but the reality, he discovered, was quite different. Hilarious, moving and occasionally alarming, Bedside Stories is a classic account of what life as a new doctor is really like.
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No of pages: 224
Dimensions: 27.0cm x 19.0cm