The Complete Confessions of a GP (The Confessions Series)电子书

The Complete Confessions

Dr Benjamin Daniels

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Contents

About the Author

Who am I?

Introduction

Mrs Peacock

Tom Jones

Targets

First day

Jargon

Proud to work for the NHS

Drug reps

Mr Tipton, the paedophile

Average day

Tara

Sex in the surgery

The elderly

Bums

Julia

Good doctors

Connor

Janine

Saving lives

Kirsty, the trannie

‘It’s my boobs, Doc’

Mr Hogden

Small talk

Notes

Lists

Ten minutes

Alf

Meningitis

Uzma

Africa

Evidence

Carolina

Lee

Hugging

Tough Life Syndrome

Mrs Briggs

Betty Bale’s cat

Vaccines

Darryl

The pat dog

Rina

Dos and don’ts

Home births

Michael

Alternative medicine

Thai bride

Dead people

Holistic earwax

Obesity register

Dr Arbury

Body fluids

Racism

Sleep

Magic wand

Cannabis

Sick notes

Drug reps … again

Mistakes … I’ve made a few

The near miss

The cockup but arse covered

The cockup and up shit creek

Dying

Happy pills

Type 1. Grieving

Type 2. Classic clinical depression

Type 3. Low-grade misery

Top 1 per cent of the population

Computers

Kieran

Peter

Granny dumping

Aggressive conduct disorder

Ed

Camouflage man

Memories

Fighting

Class

Tingling ear syndrome

Gary

Beach medicine

Gifts

Politics

Passing judgement

The examination game

Sex

Money

In defence of our high earning:

In criticism of our high earnings:

Why do we earn so much?

Angela

I don’t like some of my patients

Boundaries

Smoking

Angry man

Maintaining interest

The future?

Tariq

Babies

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Why do people get sick?

Malcolm

A pair of glasses

Stewart

NHS reforms

Barry

Tuition fees

Please don’t outsource our receptionists

Fit to work?

Royal Wedding

Abortion

Taking responsibility

France vs UK

The NHS is brill

My patients are brill

Contents

Introduction

First day

Sarah

Crackhead Kenny I

Maggie I

Brian and Deidre

Maggie II

Communication skills

Maggie III

Maggie IV

Can’t be too careful

Crackhead Kenny II

Army medical I

Tummy aches

Glass test

Mr Lorenzo

Pseudoseizures

Antibiotic resistance

Diabetes

Tarig I

Is the quality of NHS care really declining?

Jimmy Savile

Nathan

Army medical II

Betty Ferrari

Smelly bum

Tarig II

Should we know how much health care costs?

Danni I

The NHS, the envy of the world?

Don’t look down

Mrs Patrick

Danni II

Unnoticed

Man flu

Medical students

Taking benefits away from addicts

Stuck in the middle

Danni III

Funny X-ray

The coroner

Mr Goodson

Mr Raymond

Hannah

Ted

Should we name and shame doctors who make mistakes?

Pseudocyesis

Playing God

Simon

Removing patients from lists

Bravery

Foreign bodies

Retrieving the gerbil

The chemical cosh

Medical science

Gastric bypass

Karen’s baby

Notes

Nurses I

Nurses II

Paradise

Yes/No

David

Hospital deaths

Sinbad

John

How doctors die

Rita

Neighbours

Letter to myself, 10 years ago

Also available in the Confessions series.

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