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Trust Me, I'm A (Junior) Doctor (2008)

by Max Pemberton(Favorite Author)
3.92 of 5 Votes: 4
ISBN
0340951672 (ISBN13: 9780340951675)
languge
English
publisher
Hodder & Stoughton Ltd
review 1: Bautifully written,accessible,heartwarming,humorous. I can identify with the pressures of working in a hospital having been a Nurse Trainee,being thrown in at the deep end,being expected to know everything on my first day on a ward. The difficulties of having to come to terms with pain,suffering and the awful experience of someone dying and the eventual necessity to become detached as a means of self-preservation.
review 2: Glad I finally managed to finish this, it did after all take me about a year to finish. Despite this, I will (quite tentatively) admit this was a good read, predominantly because it was fun to read about the interesting elements to being a junior doctor. For the most part the diary-formatted narration was engaging but at times the fitting an
... mored finalised conclusions to some entries could consequent in a year-long abandonment. My only criticism with this book is that I found Pemberton a tad whiny (although I do get that he was trying to attain some sort of self-realisation, he just came across as a bit of a moaner). less
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Mukti
This left me with nothing more than an uneasy distrust of hospitals and doctors.
GnS
Superb piece of non-fiction on one man's first year as a doctor.
Miyukichan
A good light read with some funny, sad and serious moments :)
GINA
Can't wait to read the 2nd one.
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