Bedside stories

[joyabbott]

Does anyone know if this is exactly the same as the 'blog' on the Guardian site - I know it's the same doctor, but before I rush out for a copy, it'd be good to know I haven't already read it!

[smiley]

Looks like it is the stuff he wrote in the Guardian. According to the Amazon website:

Synopsis
For two years Michael Foxton wrote in The Guardian about his experiences as a junior doctor in the NHS. This volume contains those pieces. They illuminate the quirks, horrors and delights of all aspects of doctoring, from casualty to the psychiatric ward.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/...807890-2605205

[Kev]

Basic Histology- text & atlas by Junqueira. Read this and you need never touch another novel again

[joyabbott]

If you read my dissertation, even histology will seem thrilling

[orthopod]

try a 3 hour lecture series on 'exercise for the elderly' thrilling stuff. honestly

[adrianc]

Bedside Stories is just the collection of all Michael Foxton's Guardian columns, plus an appendix about his visit to that public dissection by the German guy last year.

It's a brilliant, hilarious book: I couldn't put it down - even on the day I received it from Amazon after a night on call, it kept me up for 3 hours!

Michael Foxton writes about what it's really like being a junior doctor... he's very harsh, very funny, and, unfortunately, quite accurate in his description of the PRHO year and how it changes us.

But despite the awful times he goes through, the book has a happy ending with him training to be a psychiatrist, as he always wanted to do.

Every medical student and potential applicant to medical school should read this book. It'll tell you MUCH more about life as a junior than you'll ever learn by work-shadowing or volunteering! - Just don't let it put you off, cus it all really does have a happy ending!