Second Opinion

Theodore Dalrymple has spent 20 years as a prison and hospital doctor in one of Britain's poorest inner cities - and chronicling his experiences in regular dispatches in some of Britain's bestselling magazines. This book is a series of short pieces compiled from his regular, much-loved 'Second Opini [...]
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Theodore Dalrymple has spent 20 years as a prison and hospital doctor in one of Britain's poorest inner cities - and chronicling his experiences in regular dispatches in some of Britain's bestselling magazines. This book is a series of short pieces compiled from his regular, much-loved 'Second Opinion' and 'If Symptoms Persist' columns in The Spectator. It offers a compelling insight into what it's really like to work at the sharp end of modern medicine. He writes with a combination of compassion, dry humour and, occasionally, anger - mostly at the inhuman bureaucracy of the system, which works against doctors and nurses as they try to help their patients.