Book description
Hospital Babylon is an in-depth, amusing and highly insightful
expose of the extraordinary world of modern medicine. It will take the
reader on a journey through the various departments and wards where
babies are made, thighs are reduced, noses straightened and spare
kidneys are flown in from the Indian subcontinent.
We will meet doctors who sleep with nurses. Doctors who sleep with
patients. Doctors who fiddle their insurance forms. Doctors who suck
fat, pump up breasts, plump lips and lengthen penises. The doctor who
specialises in flatulence. The doctor who shoots up before he
operates. Doctor Feelgood who will give you anything and everything
you need. As well as the doctor who makes a fortune doing buttock
enlargements in the Caribbean. En route, we will discover what touches
them, what amuses them and quite how obsessively insane you have to be
to make it to the top.
Why does a private room cost over £1000 a night? Who are the people
changing your bedpan? Holding your hand as you go to sleep? What do
they do to you while you're out cold? Why are drugs so expensive? How
easy is it for the pharmaceutical companies to grease the good
doctor's palm? Who exactly is profiting from your illness,
embarrassing affliction or brand new nose? And, of course, what
happens when it all goes wrong?
Packed with true stories, anecdotes and revelations, Hospital
Babylon is a riveting, entertaining and shocking look at 24
hours in the life of a hospital. Both amusing and appalling, it will
make you question whether you should sign that consent form after all...
Imogen Edwards-Jones is the bestselling author of
Hotel Babylon
,
Air Babylon, Fashion Babylon, Beach Babylon
and
Wedding Babylon,
as well as novels such as
My Canape Hell
and
Shagpile
. She lives in west London with her husband and their two young
children.
