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  • Hodder Paperbacks
  • Hodder & Stoughton
  • Hodder & Stoughton

  • Narrator

    Alexi Armitage

  • Runtime

    7hr 40m

Trust Me, I'm a (Junior) Doctor: The hilarious and thought-provoking account of life on the NHS frontline - a must-read for fans of Adam Kay

Max Pemberton

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Biography: general, Autobiography: general, Autobiography: science, technology & medicine, Memoirs, True stories: discovery / historical / scientific, Prose: non-fiction, Medical profession

In the vein of the best 'blog books' the real life story of a hapless junior doctor, based on his columns written anonymously for the Telegraph

If you re going to be ill, it s best to avoid the first Wednesday in August. This is the day when junior doctors graduate to their first placements and begin to face having to put into practice what they have spent the last six years learning. Starting on the evening before he begins work as a doctor, this book charts Max Pemberton s touching and funny journey through his first year in the NHS. Progressing from youthful idealism to frank bewilderment, Max realises how little his job is about 'saving people' and how much of his time is taken up by signing forms and trying to figure out all the important things no one has explained yet -- for example, the crucial question of how to tell whether someone is dead or not. Along the way, Max and his fellow fledgling doctors grapple with the complicated questions of life, love, mental health and how on earth to make time to do your laundry ... All Creatures Great and Small meets Bridget Jones s Diary, this is a humorous and accessible peek into a world which you'd normally need a medical degree to witness.Max Pemberton is a doctor. He writes a weekly column for the Daily Telegraph.

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Praise for Trust Me, I'm a (Junior) Doctor: The hilarious and thought-provoking account of life on the NHS frontline - a must-read for fans of Adam Kay

  • Reads like Scrubs: The Blog... This diary-style account of Pemberton's first year on the wards is funny and awful in equal measure. - Observer

  • Very funny and frank. - Independent

  • Painfully funny. - Boris Johnson

  • Reading his absurdly funny, beautifully observed, day to day, horror stories from the wards, made me laugh and shudder - Maureen Lipman

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Max Pemberton

Max Pemberton is a doctor, writer and journalist. His first book, Trust Me, I'm a (Junior) Doctor, was a Radio 4 Book of the Week, and was subsequently followed by two more books about his experiences working in the NHS, Where Does it Hurt? and The Doctor Will See You Now.

He is currently a columnist for the Daily Mail and Reader's Digest, and a regular contributor to the Spectator.

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