Book description
The junior doctor . . . back on the wards. After a year on the streets
treating outreach patients, Max Pemberton is back in the relative
comfort of hospital. This time running between elderly care and the
dementia clinic to A&E and outpatients. No longer inexperienced (Max
and his doctor friends can now tell when someone is actually dead), they
are on the front line of patient care for better or worse.
In the midst of an NHS still under threat (some things never change)
there are committed and caring doctors, big issues, hope, frustration,
huge societal changes affecting the entire health system as well as the
general drama of everyday life in a big hospital, from biscuit wars to
resus. It's not like television, this is real - there are no easy
answers - but The Doctor Will See You Now
will give you hope that there are enough good doctors asking the questions.
Max Pemberton is a practicing doctor. As well as a degree in
Medicine, he completed a degree in Anthropology for which he was awarded
a first and a prize for academic excellence. Max has worked in a broad
range of medicine from geriatrics, adult psychiatry, surgery and
paediatric palliative care. He is also a columnist for the Daily Telegraph
and Reader's Digest
. In 2010, he was named Public Educator of the Year 2010 by the Royal
College of Psychiatrists.
