In Stitches电子书

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Disclaimer

Table of Contents

Introduction

A sign the world has gone mad?

Management madness

Treating your own family

Dealing with threatening patients

No notes

Off duty?

An upsetting day

Right and left problems

What a waste of talent

MMC – mangling medical careers

Still off duty?

I want muffins

Bloody trains

GP receptionists

Why I love going to work

This is how it feels like the NHS has been run the last few years

And this is how I would like the NHS to be managed

Ooops

Where have all the dentists gone?

Should he have called an ambulance?

A different type of health visitor

How targets can hurt patients and staff

At work on New Year’s Eve

Why bother coming?

I am so glad I am tired

People we refer to

Why patients are more important than budgets

An occupational hazard

I don’t understand some patients

A trip round A&E

A&E Room 101

How to be a good patient

The effects of bloody accounting rules

Please come to A&E

We have gone drug crazy

Coming home for Christmas

The joys of shift work

Careful with your notes and coffee room chats

An embarrassed husband

The human effect of reconfiguration and lack of beds

Unexpected laughter

Repeat attenders

This job is hard

Another sad case

The importance of banter at work

The wonders of the Internet

Just a little small moan

The joys of A&E

Smoking yourself to death

Patient choice or patient confusion?

Putting yourself at risk

The anger of chess

Training to be a consultant

The last straw

Missed fractures

Things have improved … but they need to be better still

Harming yourself

Factitious behaviour

People who work in the A&E department

Too posh to wash?

How to lose a friend

Hero to heroin

Taking the piss

Off on holiday

Hospital inefficiencies

Crying wolf

Blind to the problems

When patients make jokes

Ooops again

More inefficiencies of hospital care

Sad request for a MAP

Teaching

Even more hospital inefficiencies

A weird rash

Feeling guilty

Being called at home

Complaint letters

Why I am glad I am an A&E doctor

Not enough beds

Satisfied doctor and patient

Mad bureaucracy

NHS Direct … to A&E

Why I hate laziness

MRSA: the good, bad and ugly

Errr, I think he has vffxyeez syndrome

What’s wrong with me?

When not to get ill

Out-of-hours GPs

Sick outside 9–5, Monday to Friday?

A sick man

Why I love A&E

Patients’ wrong priorities

How to be seen quickly

The dangers of cannabis

For fit’s sake

The state of some nursing homes

The best year for the NHS?

Hoping that the ground will swallow you up

Two similar patients, but two different outcomes

An amusing patient

Closing your A&E, are they?

Nasty walls

Tired again

Changing emotions

Career stresses

Bloody Jobsworth

Lack of staff

Am I becoming sick?

Why do we all lie?

A typical day

JFWDI

Male menstrual syndrome

Delivering oranges

The problems of alcohol

Upset at work

My last thoughts

Apologies, acknowledgments, thank yous and hopes

Glossary

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