Dr Quin, Medicine Man
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Dr Quin, Medicine Man

  1. 368 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Dr Quin, Medicine Man

About this book

"Refreshing and eloquent" – Libby Purves, The Times

"Quin's acute powers of observation vividly convey the hinterland of the modern general hospital … A medical memoir for the Trainspotting generation." – The Tablet

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Surgeons cut, but physicians… what do physicians actually do? And is it true that other doctors really call them 'the magicians'?

John Quin worked for thirty-three years as a physician for the NHS in both Scotland and England, specialising in endocrinology. Days on the wards were uproariously funny one minute, infinitely tragic the next.

Starting with a stern lesson from the president of the British Society of Gastroenterologists that the younger doctor was not 'a f****** comedian', Dr Quin, Medicine Man is packed with vividly told tales of the joy and reward of getting the diagnosis right, the disaster of getting it wrong.

Darkly amusing and with a keen eye for the absurd, this sharply observed memoir is not only an acute insight into the farcical frustrations and tensions of working in a chronically underfunded system but also a timely reminder of the humanity of the NHS staff who care for us.

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Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Dedication
  3. Epigraph
  4. Contents
  5. PART ONE: SCOTLAND 1983–1992
  6. PART TWO: ENGLAND 1992–2016
  7. Epilogue
  8. Postscript
  9. Acknowledgements
  10. About the Author
  11. Copyright