The Doctor Will See You Now: The Junior Doctor's Back in Hospital

I like Pemberton's books because he highlights social problems without sounding preachy. In this book he is back at the hospital working in the A&E and with elderly mental health patients. As always, he recounts both funny and sad anecdotes. I hope he writes another book soon.

I enjoyed this book. Especially the comedy inserted in serious areas of medicine. It does seem to jump around a bit. Also keeping all the flat mates organized in my head was tricky. Great read though.

This book sees the author back in a hospital job, covering A&E and working in geriatrics and psychiatry. Geriatrics is something of a Cinderella speciality and dealing with geriatric patients with psychiatric problems is even less popular. There are some heart rending stories and some which remind the reader that there is still good in human nature.The author's flat mates feature largely in this book - Flora, Ruby and a new inmate - Terry - who for a change is not a doctor. Lewis is battling with the problem of telling his family about his life style. Patients come and go and some will stick in your mind long after you finish reading the book. The elderly man who had broken his shoulder and who no one would treat because he also had schizophrenia; the man who couldn't understand that his life savings were now in a bank and went round accusing everyone of stealing them; the man in his 50s with CJD who kept piling furniture up in corners because he had been a removal man before the disease struck him.What I found particularly touching was the innovative ways nurses found to deal with these patients. The former removal man just needed telling, for example, that it was tea break time and he would sit down and stop rearranging the furniture. This simple solution meant his wife could look after him at home for much longer. The care demonstrated by some of the nurses was absolutely marvellous. One of them could interpret the smallest change in facial expression of one of his patients and knew exactly what he needed and what was wrong with him even though the doctor didn't.I found the ways the hospital spheres of influence worked interesting and parallels can probably be found in any large organisation. People in unlikely jobs often have much more power than could normally be expected from their job title alone; the secretary - Trudy - the provider of cake to celebrate and commiserate who always knew everything that was going on. The typing pool where there was a temporary typist who could listen to his iPod and his dictation tapes at the same time and who wanted to be a doctor showed the author that you should never judge by appearances.Some marvellous characters and some thought provoking situations show that as a society we are seriously neglecting out old people - especially those with mental illnesses. If you are approaching an age when this sort of thing is likely to affect you personally then this book may keep you awake at night wondering whether you could end up sedated in a nursing home because no one has the time to treat you properly as a human being. Staff such as the author himself, Marsha and Dr Webber will give the reader hope that things can change for the better. There are people who care and who want to make a difference.

Do not buy any books by this person. Prince Harry, patron of a UK children's charity for children living with health challenges, became emotional during his speech on October 15, 2019. Max Pemberton, contributor to the British tabloid "The Daily Mail, made disparaging remarks about Prince Harry, because he teared up as he spoke about one of he and his wife's fears of becoming new parents.

As a retired nurse I usually enjoy this genre of book and when friends recommended it I decided to download it. However despite enjoying the author’s other books I found this one very different and I was skimming through some of the chapters as it was boring in places. One thing that always astounds me when an author writes a biography such as this is the power of recall and this one wasn’t any different. The author must have an excellent memory or there’s some poetic license involved.

Oh my life-watching Max Pemberton grow up as a writer has been amazing. This book is deftly written, utterly enthralling, and paints a gorgeous picture of hard-working and terrified professionals doing their best as the system disintegrates around them! Max describes a world I'd never imagined, complete with the mood whiplash of dealing with everything that people can fling at him and his colleagues. There are moments of heartbreak, moments of joy, and moments you can't even classify. Stick your face in this, you won't regret it!

Fist book I have read by Max Pemberton. Most enjoyable. Shows life as a Doctor and the understanding of patients. Especially those with dementia. Shows quite clearly where his pathway lies in life . Shows typical life as a junior Doctor and that of his colleagues. With laughter and sadness of patients that have crossed their path. A Doctor who fights for the rights of those not able to fight themselves.

Are you looking for a book which covers, dementia, death, homophobia, human nature at its raw capacity, lives made, saved and sadly passed. A book from start to finish, that takes you on a journey not just from the wards but to the surgery and to the staff rooms, offices, life and death all in such gripping detail, you’ve let about 18 cups of tea go cold? Then read away.

I always get infuriated by people (of whom there are many) who write biographical books and then add the proviso that of course while based on reality, they are in fact an amalgum of situations, people, etc. This is one of them but so thought provoking and well written that I forgive the writer and would recommend it!!