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Review by Chrissi (010623) Rating (8/10) Review
by Chrissi This is a collection of anecdotes from the life of a surgeon, less bald and exposed than some memoires, from a rather more genteel, dignified age where doctors were more revered and less second-guessed by google. The respect and affection with which he describes his patients and most of his colleagues, from the value of nursing staff in the instruction of young medics, to the consultants from whom he learns, comes across very nicely and you feel that he would have been an immensely comforting person to be in charge of your care. This book is a little further on in the career of Paul, and in part, he has moved on from the City General, but he has cause to return and meet some of the people with whom he had worked. It does feel in places like some of the stories are similar to those in the first book, but they are nicely told and you feel that his learnings from the incidents are illuminating and make for an improved doctor. I do enjoy hospital memoirs, and having been in the NHS for a fairly long time, his description of the buildings and facilities of the aging Nightingale wards and Victorian plumbing are familiar and nostalgic. If you like your medical memoirs to be a little less grossly comedic, then you will enjoy this. |
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