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Details condition: brand new format: paperback isbn: 9780340962053 publisher: hodder & stoughton overview trust me, i'm a junior doctor is max pemberton's candid and often hilarious account of his first year working in the nhs. Drawn from his newspaper columns, the book follows max from the night before his first shift through the chaos, exhaustion and unexpected humour of hospital life. It's a warm, witty memoir that pulls back the curtain on what really happens on the wards, told with the honesty of someone who lived every bleary-eyed, adrenaline-fuelled moment of it. About the book if you're going to be ill, it's best to avoid the first wednesday in august. This is the day when newly qualified junior doctors graduate to their first placements and must put into practice everything they've spent six years learning. Starting on the evening before he begins work as a doctor, max pemberton charts his touching and funny journey through his first year in the nhs. Progressing from youthful idealism to frank bewilderment, max quickly realises how little of his job is actually about saving people and how much of his time is instead taken up with signing forms and figuring out the important things that nobody explained during medical school, including the tricky question of how to tell whether a patient is actually dead. Along the way, max and his fellow doctors grapple with the bigger questions of life and love, mental health in a gruelling profession, and the daily s...
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