Where Does it Hurt?: What the Junior Doctor Did Next by Max Pemberton - Non Fiction - Paperback

Details. Condition: New. Format: Paperback. ISBN: 9780340919934. Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton. Age Range: Adult. Overview. Where Does it Hurt? What the Junior Doctor Did Next is Max Pemberton's candid, funny and moving follow-up to his bestselling debut memoir. Now in his second year as a doctor, Max swaps the hospital ward for the unpredictable world of community outreach, treating some of society's most vulnerable and overlooked people. Written with warmth, wit and unflinching honesty, this paperback memoir offers a rare insider's view of medicine practised far from a hospital's safety, among people the system too often forgets.. About the Book. Having survived his first gruelling year on the wards, Max Pemberton joins the Phoenix Outreach Project, a scheme dedicated to finding and treating patients who fall through the cracks of mainstream healthcare. Armed with little more than a medical bag, endless tea and boundless enthusiasm, he ventures into homeless shelters, squats and the margins of the city to deliver care where it's needed most. Along the way he meets an unforgettable cast, including Molly, an eighty-year-old drugs mule, a man who believes himself to be God, and middle-class mothers quietly dependent on prescription painkillers. Pemberton's writing is sharp, self-deprecating and deeply compassionate, capturing both the absurdity and the tragedy of frontline outreach work. He doesn't shy away from the exhaustion, moral dilemmas and bureaucratic frustration of the job, but nor does he lose sight of the humour and humanity that keep him going. This is a memoir about growing into a doctor and a person, learning that medicine is as much about listening and empathy as diagnosis and treatment. Fans of his debut, Trust Me, I'm a (Junior) Doctor, will recognise the voice, honed here by experience and the harder truths of working with society's most marginalised patients. Where Does it Hurt? is hilarious, heartbreaking and hopeful, a genuine account of medicine