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🏆 2024 BIBA® Medical Memoir Winner!
Dr Magnesium is a real-life rollercoaster ride through a career in Medicine, covering an unprecedented period in the history of the NHS, including the first-ever junior doctors’ strikes of 2015/16, Brexit, and the COVID-19 pandemic.
From the humblest of beginnings in eighties Liverpool, taking in tours of active service in Bosnia and Northern Ireland, a brief stint as a Fine Arts Student, and life as a successful business owner along the way, Dr Magnesium brings a unique outsider’s perspective into the often secretive world of hospital medicine.
Pulling no punches, this hard-hitting first-hand account provides graphic insight into the psychological effects of working in a high-pressure environment, in regular proximity to death and tragedy, posing the question: Is it possible for anyone to retain their humanity under such intense circumstances?
“It’s like Adam Kay’s This is Going to Hurt on Crack.”
