Chicken Unga Fever
eBook - ePub

Chicken Unga Fever

Stories from the medical frontline

  1. 167 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Chicken Unga Fever

Stories from the medical frontline

About this book

Is it a new strain of bird flu? A strange neurological condition characterised by an irresistible urge to eat poultry-based foods?

No, Chicken Unga Fever is a collection of the very best of Dr Phil Whitaker's 'Health Matters' columns – much loved by readers of the New Statesman magazine, where they have appeared fortnightly for the past five years.

Funny, touching, informative, and often profoundly poignant, Chicken Unga Fever paints a vivid portrait of the working life of a West Country GP.

From the overweight anorexic to the rash-stricken Kylie fan, from the curious case of Top-of-the-Ear Disease to the equally mysterious Pool Toe, Phil's humanely written vignettes illuminate every aspect of modern medicine, and cast light on the state of our beleaguered NHS and the glorious variety of people it serves.

This collection will delight both interested lay readers and those who work in healthcare. And, to cap it all, somewhere in these pages the true nature of Chicken Unga Fever will be revealed.

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Table of contents

  1. IN HOURS
  2. Buzzers and meeters
  3. Bites
  4. Needles and hay
  5. Section
  6. Condom quest
  7. NEAD
  8. OUT OF HOURS
  9. Veronice
  10. Poster girl
  11. Safeguarding
  12. Anaphylaxis
  13. The last gamble
  14. Chicken Unga Fever
  15. IN HOURS
  16. Hector
  17. Martha
  18. Al fresco
  19. Reflux
  20. Respite
  21. White spotitis
  22. High fidelity
  23. MUSINGS
  24. Lessons learned
  25. Medical myths
  26. Pain
  27. Lloyd George
  28. Fat tax
  29. Mobile medicine
  30. IN HOURS
  31. Kylie and the rash
  32. Complaint
  33. Aubrey
  34. The skin we’re in
  35. Textbook stuff
  36. Lost hours
  37. Blue book
  38. OFF DUTY
  39. Speech day
  40. Gifts
  41. Heimlich
  42. Pool toe
  43. Flying
  44. Insurance
  45. First world problems
  46. IN HOURS
  47. Not seeing for looking
  48. Catcher
  49. Reunion
  50. Fear
  51. Colin and Mary
  52. Health check
  53. MUSINGS
  54. A sense of the humours
  55. Antibiotics
  56. Too much medicine
  57. Consent
  58. What you eat
  59. Hard rations
  60. Border guards
  61. IN HOURS
  62. Broken heart syndrome
  63. A real headache
  64. Stress test
  65. Video star
  66. Cataplexy
  67. Top of the ear disease
  68. DNAR