⭐⭐⭐⭐ out of 5
If you've read any of my other recent book reviews, you'll already know that every book I read and review starts off with the full surgery-load of stars and that I'm forever hopeful that they will all still be stuck firmly in place by the time I close the back cover. You'll also know that I'm not shy about removing stars but that I always give my reasons for dropping them within the review.
Let's get going with the reading and reviewing shall we?
I've read at least one of this author's books before and like soo many others he's already losing a star for using trademarks. I've given him the benefit of the doubt a couple of times already, but at page 11 the first star is already coming off unfortunately.
Poor Dr Max and his flatmates really have been thrown in at the deep end so soon after qualifying and I can't help wondering if the two wards accidentally on purpose worked together to come up with what happened that night, to really keep Dr Max on his toes lol
I'm up to page 84 now and Max is really pulling at my heart strings... I knew doctors have a hard life and that telly programmes aren't 100% real, but I'm feeling so torn for poor Max!
Page 108 and that's me finished reading for the day. The previous pages were pretty gross to read, but I've done it to myself on a much smaller scale fairly frequently, so I've got no reason to be grossed out lol
Back for another day's reading and I totally agree with Max... all the junior doctors are worked to the bone every shift as well as being on call, then the consultants drop private patients onto them just as their shift ends... not good at all.
It's awful (understatement of the millennium) that *anyone* is still treated that way because of the colour of their skin! Lewis seems to be an incredible doctor so the colour of his skin shouldn't be an issue for anyone!!
I hope Max's gran will be OK! No spoilers, don't worry, but that came totally out of nowhere!
Oh no, poor Max. He accidentally screwed up and now he's beating himself up about it.
No spoilers again, but Housewive's Favourite got exactly what he was owed and he's trying to shirk away from something that he has nobody but himself to blame for and he doesn't like it one little bit.
Up to page 259 now so I'll finish it off tomorrow, on Christmas Eve.
I've read 20 pages and the state of our NHS from a doctors point of view is heartbreaking. They slog their guts out at university then get shifted around in their first year of being a (junior) doctor, then they are told that the NHS is being restructured and that less is more which is total codswallop to me and so many others!
Yes! Totally! I've only ever known our NHS and it was over 30 years old by the time I was born and I guess I take it for granted now, which is wrong of me, but I've never known anything else and it's saved my life at least once because it's free at the point of use! Our NHS is absolutely incredible with fantastic staff working their fingers to the bone (sometimes literally) and they just get thanked with cuts and restructuring from the pen-pushers and violence and impossible demands from the patients and their families!
What a great end to a fantastic book. It's another one of those "shoulda been 5 stars" books if it wasn't for the use of those trademarked throughout the book. A definite must-read.
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