Vital Signs

Heartbreaking, sometimes hilarious stories from a junior doctor's first year

Vital Signs
Izzy Lomax-Sawyers
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NZ$ 36.99
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Paperback
h234 x 153mm - 288pg
30 Aug 2022 NZ
International import eta 7-19 days
9781988547909
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Diagnosis and death; uncertainty and urgent laxatives; sleep deprivation and synthetic drawstring trousers: this debut work by Izzy Lomax-Sawyers chronicles her first year as a tired junior doctor at Auckland' s Middlemore Hospital. How can I be a thorough and compassionate doctor while still leaving work before 7pm? How do I uphold dignity and autonomy for people whose liberty has been taken because of severe mental illness? How will I know when what we can do for a critically ill patient is different from what we should do? Is this floor clean enough to sleep on? Izzy grapples with these questions and more as she rotates through psychiatry, orthopaedics, medicine and surgery. Thoughtful, funny, and at times heart-breaking, this book invites readers to join Izzy through the highs and lows of being an apprentice in the art and science of medicine. Get your scrubs on and chug your coffee, ward rounds start at six forty-five.
Izzy is both a doctor and a keen writer. Along with her MBChB, she has a BA in Linguistics. She has written pieces for The New Zealand Herald and for Corpus (a website that publishes health-related writing).
Status: Indent title, imported to order
ISBN-13: 9781988547909
Published: 30 Aug 2022
Published In: New Zealand
Imprint: Allen & Unwin
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Format: Paperback
Height: 234mm
Width: 153mm
Pages: 288

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