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Bedside Stories: Confessions of a Junior Doctor | 
 enlarge | Author: Michael Foxton
Publisher: Atlantic Books
Category: Book
List Price: £8.99
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Rating:  9 reviews
Sales Rank: 4704
Media: Paperback
Pages: 224
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5.1 x 0.6
ISBN: 1843540320
Dewey Decimal Number: 920
EAN: 9781843540328
ASIN: 1843540320
Publication Date: October 9, 2003
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| Customer Reviews: Read 4 more reviews...
 It is really like this..... May 31, 2007
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
Although it may be unpalatable to many, this is exactly what it was ( ?is) like to be junior doctor...I know i was one.
I'm now a consultant and things haven't changed much (other than for the worse)
Read it if you want to get a true perspective as opposed to the nonsense in Holby City, Casualty etc
Whilst you're at it take a look at the Cardiac Arrest series from the 90's now on DVD -- probaly the best hospital TV series ever made
 Important reading for doctors in training February 20, 2007
8 out of 10 found this review helpful
As a medical teacher I was keen to add my thoughts having
just read this book. Like other reviewers I found aspects of this book
negative, missing out a lot of the positive
points out about being a junior doctor.
Having said that there are some parts of the book which were very valuable.
Suicide among doctors is a real issue and it is vital all
doctors, particularly junior doctors, read the section on
pages 80-82; "Suicide is Painless". He writes; "So if
you're a doctor and you think it it's all over and your
whole world has gone irretrievably pear-shaped, I say
this: Bail out. Don't kill yourself. Leave your job. .....
Reclaim your life: have it over again. You're young.
You'll make new friends."
If you have issues relating to views on health service
managers, then read page 118.
And finally, a useful
quotation; "Accident and Emergency is the random anecdote
generator of the NHS, the strange attractor to which all
ridiculousness will gravitate." (Page 68)
The book is well worth a read, particularly for doctors in training.
Hilarious December 12, 2005
18 out of 19 found this review helpful
This is the only book that tells it like it is about being a junior doctor in the UK. It's funny and dark. A must-read for all doctors and would-be doctors out there.
 unrelentless ranting March 22, 2005
8 out of 25 found this review helpful
This book is more or less a long, bitter rant. Now there are times when I like that kind of thing, but the negativity is overwhelming here, and incessant! There are some insights into life as a junior doctor to be gleaned if you are not a doctor and there is some (I think almost accidental) comment on real issues about the downsides of medical training. However I am in two minds as to whether I really learnt anything new or indeed if I enjoyed the read. This is a book to borrow from a friend or take out of the library, I don't think I'd buy it again though I am glad I read it.
 Humorous to Cynical in 60 seconds October 30, 2004
9 out of 37 found this review helpful
This book started out as an entertaining and humorous account about life as a junior doctor, and quickly disintegrated into a cynical and negative assault on nurses and patients - the very people vital to Foxton's success and employment. Do your health a favour and give it a miss.
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