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Second Opinion

A Doctor's Notes From the Inner City

ISBN-13: 9781906308124

Contributor(s): Theodore Dalrymple

Subject: Politics & Government

Publisher Imprint: Monday Books

Publication Date: 08-10-2009

Format: Hardback

Availability: Out of stock

£14.99

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About the book

Drug addicts and desperate drunks, battered wives and suicidal burglars, elderly Alzheimer's sufferers and teenage stabbing victims all pass through Theodore Dalrymple's surgery - and he uses the experience of treating them to examine life for those unfortunate enough to live at the bottom end of society. He writes with a combination of dry humour, compassion and, occasionally, anger - mostly at the inhuman bureaucracy of the system, which works against the doctors and nurses as they try to help their patients.