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[Bodies] [By: Mercurio, Jed] [November, 2005]
A darkly powerful and blackly funny exposé of the horrors of life as a junior doctor, from the BAFTA award-winning creator of Bodyguard and Line of Duty and co-creator of the graphic novel Sleeper
'Funny, readable, galling, painful and terrifying in all the right places' Guardian
Inside every hospital exists a world no outsider is allowed to a storm of malpractice, corruption, sex, drink and drop-dead exhaustion.
But for first day junior doctors, their initiation into this world - the 'Killing Season' - is about to begin.
A whistle-blowing despatch from the frontlines of hospital life, Jed Mercurio's Bodies takes us on a nerve-jangling journey through one junior doctor's loss of innocence, and his desperate, dangerous attempts to right his - and his colleagues'- wrongs.
'Funny, readable, galling, painful and terrifying in all the right places' Guardian
Inside every hospital exists a world no outsider is allowed to a storm of malpractice, corruption, sex, drink and drop-dead exhaustion.
But for first day junior doctors, their initiation into this world - the 'Killing Season' - is about to begin.
A whistle-blowing despatch from the frontlines of hospital life, Jed Mercurio's Bodies takes us on a nerve-jangling journey through one junior doctor's loss of innocence, and his desperate, dangerous attempts to right his - and his colleagues'- wrongs.
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Jed Mercurio
7 books51 followersJed Mercurio is a British author; TV and film producer and (non practicing) medical doctor.
He also writes under the name John MacUre. He created the television series Cardiac Arrest, Bodies and the sci-fi miniseries Invasion: Earth (1998). Bodies is based on his novel of the same name and earned him two BAFTA Television Award nominations and two RTS Award nominations. He has also written and directed for The Grimleys (and wrote the pilot episode).
Before turning to writing, Mercurio trained as a doctor at the University of Birmingham.
He also writes under the name John MacUre. He created the television series Cardiac Arrest, Bodies and the sci-fi miniseries Invasion: Earth (1998). Bodies is based on his novel of the same name and earned him two BAFTA Television Award nominations and two RTS Award nominations. He has also written and directed for The Grimleys (and wrote the pilot episode).
Before turning to writing, Mercurio trained as a doctor at the University of Birmingham.
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October 16, 2012
Jed Mercurio has made a second career out of exposing the details of his first.
The British author trained as a medical doctor at Birmingham University and worked at various hospitals in the West Midlands before tapping his experiences for two BBC television dramas and now his first novel, Bodies.
This terse, gut-wrenching account of what goes on at a large English hospital follows an idealistic junior doctor from his first jittery IV to his exhausted disillusionment at the realization that medicine, contrary to what ER would have us believe, is just another industry.
Resign yourself to the fact that those attending to you are probably not kindly, all-knowing and infallible doctors but under-trained, over-stressed, sleep-deprived functionaries of a vast bureaucracy beset with as much incompetence, internal bureaucratic wrangling and hair-raising blunders as any other business.
The only diference is that lives are constantly at stake. Mercurio is excellent at conveying the tremendous pressure average doctors are under. "ABC: Always be chasing" the head doctor warns the novel's hero on his first days on the job, as we follow him on endless rounds of hall walking from department to department, attempting to assure that every diagnostic on every chart is attended to. The details are endless. Mercurio almost physically conveyes the high octane attention required over fifteen to twenty hour shifts, where the slightest fudge in detail can result in medical disaster (his failure to ask for a blood gasses test result in an elderly patient's embolism). At one point we find him collapsed against a wall in a darkened side room, literally crying with exhaustion and realizing he hasn't showered in two days.He goes on to work another shift.
The strain translates into mistakes. A woman with misdiagnosed diabetes winds up drooling in a wheelchair. Another boy with a dislocated shoulder loses most of the use of his arm,and his doctor is frankly unapologetic about it. The narrator, out to make a difference and guilt-ridden over his own missteps, attempts to take action and winds up suspended.
As the narrator becomes distanced from his girlfriend and his colleagues in the softer professions, he’s increasingly drawn into the tightly knit and closed cabal of the medical community.
Mercurio is especially adept at showing how the medical community eats its own. The extreme demands on their expertise coupled with the horrors what they routinely witness gradually distance them from the 9 to five crowd, and eventually they seek solace amongsth themselves. Mecurio suggests that an evening with a doctor will have you scratching your head at their incomprehensible vocabulary or throwing up in your mouth a little. So doctors can add isolation to their list of complaints.
The narrator is left at the end with a tentative offer to come back to the hospital, and we get the sense that rage against the system may only be another rite of passage for those working in the overburdened world of medicine.
Mercurio balances his righteous concern for the state of health care with an admirable account of what it is to be an actual, fallible doctor. Readers who are considering entering the profession by forewarned. You might think twice about medical school.
July 11, 2019
An interesting and intense insight into the medical profession that is nothing like what you see in TV dramas. I know there's a glossary at the back but I just wish terms were explained in the main text too rather than expecting the reader to know all the medical jargon. It kind of spoilt my reading experience because as a 'civilian' I really had to concentrate; hence the three star rating. I did find it amusing that blood was referred to as House Red though.
October 29, 2017
This was a very bleak read, unputdownable though, with flashes of black humour. In one way it is very unbalanced, there is no mention of the hundreds of patients he treated who must have got better and gone home, but for anyone who has worked within the NHS there is so much that is recognisable it's scary.
May 20, 2025
I did not expect this when I picked up this book, and yet it's almost fitting that you don't know what to expect. Jed Mercurio takes us through the life of a junior doctor. The pressure from the job, the exhaustion after every shift, the fear of mistakes made, and the sex - raw and messy and anatomically correct. This is not a soft and happy book. This is raw, scary, dark, and frank, even funny if you get the humour. I loved it because of all of this. A glimpse into a life told in so much detail and accuracy it's scary. Read it if you dare. This will most certainly live in my head rent-free for some time.
February 26, 2023
Pretty good I'd say. Took me an age to read because it uses a lot of medical jargon. Interesting and intriguing. Clear ending. Overall, enjoyed it a lot
May 21, 2022
In the 20 years since this debut novel was published, it seems doctor memoirs and stories have only become more common (Adam Kay's This is Going to Hurt comes to mind).
But Bodies was presumably a relatively early effort at this kind of writing. As a novel, it follows a junior doctor through a series of encounters with patients, relatives and colleagues, and all the intense emotions and moral dilemmas that can involve.
Mercurio writes with a dark, spare, witty style. At times I thought the book a little overwrought, as the lead character lurches from one terrible situation or action to another. But then you are forced to consider that this is probably not that uncommon in acute and emergency medicine. The idealism, the guilt, the alienation,the mental health issues, the disillusionment, the anger, the whistle blowing - Mercurio drives these into his narrative well. And he writes with a deliberate emphasis on the messy, anatomical intimacy of bodies - medically and sexually - to make the novel more vivid and effective.
In a few places it lags and feels less like a novel and more like a nonfictional memoir or series of patient cases (a wry glossary and character names like Doctor H and Breathless Lady play around with this semi-fictional style). But overall the drama and (medical) realism are compelling and intense. It's hard not to leave the book with an appreciation for the pressures and issues faced in hospitals in the 21st century. You can also see how Jed Mercurio went on to write other professional and public services dramas for television - such as Line of Duty. He seems to have a worthy and genuine interest in professional moral dilemmas, misconduct and integrity.
But Bodies was presumably a relatively early effort at this kind of writing. As a novel, it follows a junior doctor through a series of encounters with patients, relatives and colleagues, and all the intense emotions and moral dilemmas that can involve.
Mercurio writes with a dark, spare, witty style. At times I thought the book a little overwrought, as the lead character lurches from one terrible situation or action to another. But then you are forced to consider that this is probably not that uncommon in acute and emergency medicine. The idealism, the guilt, the alienation,the mental health issues, the disillusionment, the anger, the whistle blowing - Mercurio drives these into his narrative well. And he writes with a deliberate emphasis on the messy, anatomical intimacy of bodies - medically and sexually - to make the novel more vivid and effective.
In a few places it lags and feels less like a novel and more like a nonfictional memoir or series of patient cases (a wry glossary and character names like Doctor H and Breathless Lady play around with this semi-fictional style). But overall the drama and (medical) realism are compelling and intense. It's hard not to leave the book with an appreciation for the pressures and issues faced in hospitals in the 21st century. You can also see how Jed Mercurio went on to write other professional and public services dramas for television - such as Line of Duty. He seems to have a worthy and genuine interest in professional moral dilemmas, misconduct and integrity.
February 25, 2016
Flawed, confused and utterly lacking in new material. If you've seen Cardiac Arrest, this adds nothing.
When I read the first few chapters of this book, I was impressed with the initial tension, and the setting. But then the book proved a false start.
Character development is sloppy and forced, and the book is loaded with forced exposition to make comments on the practice of medicine. The themes are tacked on, and also the exact same as the points Mercurio makes in Cardiac arrest. Dialogue is rambly rather than natural and the characters seem to go out of their way to make these speeches.
The old sexist trope of sex with women solves the empty suffering of a character once again makes its appearance, laced with a good dose of lechery. Indeed, if Mercurio intended to write about a creep stalking women, he would have succeeded. Mercurio also falls for the old trope of using medical metaphors instantly making a book clever, which it most certainly does not. Even worse is his choice to use disease processes to describe the sexual acts.
The entire end of the book feels completely forced, with the whole whistle-blowing issue feeling forced. Again, Mercurio using the book to write his ideas rather than having the characters naturally flow into them.
Overall the book feels amateurish and lacks polish. The writing is not particularly stylish, and the ideas recycled. Watch Cardiac Arrest instead.
When I read the first few chapters of this book, I was impressed with the initial tension, and the setting. But then the book proved a false start.
Character development is sloppy and forced, and the book is loaded with forced exposition to make comments on the practice of medicine. The themes are tacked on, and also the exact same as the points Mercurio makes in Cardiac arrest. Dialogue is rambly rather than natural and the characters seem to go out of their way to make these speeches.
The old sexist trope of sex with women solves the empty suffering of a character once again makes its appearance, laced with a good dose of lechery. Indeed, if Mercurio intended to write about a creep stalking women, he would have succeeded. Mercurio also falls for the old trope of using medical metaphors instantly making a book clever, which it most certainly does not. Even worse is his choice to use disease processes to describe the sexual acts.
The entire end of the book feels completely forced, with the whole whistle-blowing issue feeling forced. Again, Mercurio using the book to write his ideas rather than having the characters naturally flow into them.
Overall the book feels amateurish and lacks polish. The writing is not particularly stylish, and the ideas recycled. Watch Cardiac Arrest instead.
August 17, 2019
I really, really like this book. I have loved Jed Mecurio’s TV work ever since watching the first series of Line of Duty back in 2012. Last year, I decided to visit some of his other work, including the first TV series of Bodies that ran on the BBC in 2004. While completely different, I found it just as riveting – not due to its twists and action (which Line of Duty has in abundance) but because of its rawness. And the rawness is even more stark in in this book version, making for an utterly compelling, if not horrifying, read.
The story essentially follows a junior doctor as he starts a new posting on a hospital’s A&E ward. He is immediately given a great deal of responsibility and expected to get on with it. From there we follow his journey from one medical incident to another, always depicted in graphic detail. What I liked most however - in a book full of shocking events and images - was the subtlety with which Mecurio deals with medical negligence, exploring at what point a doctor - who makes decisions that produce undesired results – can be safely labelled as incompetent.
Personally, I could have done with less of the sex scenes, which at the beginning of the book occur every couple of chapters, but I do understand Mecurio’s reasons for this as they fit in with the book’s realist tone.
The story essentially follows a junior doctor as he starts a new posting on a hospital’s A&E ward. He is immediately given a great deal of responsibility and expected to get on with it. From there we follow his journey from one medical incident to another, always depicted in graphic detail. What I liked most however - in a book full of shocking events and images - was the subtlety with which Mecurio deals with medical negligence, exploring at what point a doctor - who makes decisions that produce undesired results – can be safely labelled as incompetent.
Personally, I could have done with less of the sex scenes, which at the beginning of the book occur every couple of chapters, but I do understand Mecurio’s reasons for this as they fit in with the book’s realist tone.
December 28, 2009
I've been trying to track down a copy of this book since I saw the TV series (starring the delicious Max Beesley). It took a long time, but boy, was it worth it.
- Warning: spoilers-
The setting is different from the TV show (gen med/A&E from ob/gyn), but once you've started reading, you'll see why. This book is frank and stark enough to cause a revolt with all the things that happen- doctors that are incompetent, interns thrown into the deep end, self doubt, drug use, suicide, random sex (and that's just the doctors). The author leads us to think that doctors are like other mere mortals- they screw up big time as well. Only the implications are more life and death based. But the effect that the mistakes have on the individual is huge. This book really blows open the hospital culture, which is sadly, only just starting to change.
Please avoid this book if you can't handle blunt descriptions of sex, bodily fluids and injection procedures. For everyone else, it's a must read.
- Warning: spoilers-
The setting is different from the TV show (gen med/A&E from ob/gyn), but once you've started reading, you'll see why. This book is frank and stark enough to cause a revolt with all the things that happen- doctors that are incompetent, interns thrown into the deep end, self doubt, drug use, suicide, random sex (and that's just the doctors). The author leads us to think that doctors are like other mere mortals- they screw up big time as well. Only the implications are more life and death based. But the effect that the mistakes have on the individual is huge. This book really blows open the hospital culture, which is sadly, only just starting to change.
Please avoid this book if you can't handle blunt descriptions of sex, bodily fluids and injection procedures. For everyone else, it's a must read.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
July 8, 2022
I had recently watched the series, which I absolutely loved, and was excited to read this afterwards because I was not ready to let it go. The book is very different, but just as captivating. The writing style is very different and I don't think I've ever felt so grounded in a story. A very important and masterful book. But this is Jed Mercurio, after all.
February 15, 2023
I enjoy a spicy book from time to time, but found the descriptions of this authors sexual escapades to be a bit OTT. Not sure they were necessary or wanted in this sort of book. Overall average.
February 2, 2020
A young doctor starts his first job but notices corruption, neglicience and malpractices within the hospital. He wants to change the system, but instead, the system changes him.
This is a very nasty book. It's cold, detached and there's the power. Very few characters have a name. Even the main character remains nameless. Patients are referred to as Breathless Lady, or Young Headache Man. It helps creating a certain distance. The system forces doctors to see their patients as bodies, sacks of flesh, instead of people, and Mercurio's writing style helps establishing that distance between doctors and patients. The working environment is harsh and in a convincing way Mercurio establishes this world in a convincing way.
This book has been adapted into a BBC tv series that ran between 2004 and 2006. Although plotlines and characters are changed drastically for tv, the general idea is the same. I also really liked the references the show made to events on the books.
This is a very nasty book. It's cold, detached and there's the power. Very few characters have a name. Even the main character remains nameless. Patients are referred to as Breathless Lady, or Young Headache Man. It helps creating a certain distance. The system forces doctors to see their patients as bodies, sacks of flesh, instead of people, and Mercurio's writing style helps establishing that distance between doctors and patients. The working environment is harsh and in a convincing way Mercurio establishes this world in a convincing way.
This book has been adapted into a BBC tv series that ran between 2004 and 2006. Although plotlines and characters are changed drastically for tv, the general idea is the same. I also really liked the references the show made to events on the books.
March 9, 2022
Jed is a great TV dramatist but, for me, this book doesn't match the stellar heights he achieves on screen.
A regular author learns and makes mistakes out of the spotlight before being published. I suspect Jed was offered a book deal for Bodies before he'd fully learned how to transition between scriptwriting and novel writing.
From the outset, sentences are heavily peppered with multiple adjectives and adverbs - a giveaway that the author is in a hurry to force mood and tone into the reader's mind (in the absence of actors and visual setting that would be present on TV). Unfortunately, their overuse clunks rather than helps. The character development felt forced and the characters themselves were quite shallowly drawn.
A practising hospital doctor I know found the book realistic, and there is good, dark and funny stuff here but the reader has to wade through the technical shortcomings to get to them.
I'll be interested to see if Jed's later novels are more fluent.
A regular author learns and makes mistakes out of the spotlight before being published. I suspect Jed was offered a book deal for Bodies before he'd fully learned how to transition between scriptwriting and novel writing.
From the outset, sentences are heavily peppered with multiple adjectives and adverbs - a giveaway that the author is in a hurry to force mood and tone into the reader's mind (in the absence of actors and visual setting that would be present on TV). Unfortunately, their overuse clunks rather than helps. The character development felt forced and the characters themselves were quite shallowly drawn.
A practising hospital doctor I know found the book realistic, and there is good, dark and funny stuff here but the reader has to wade through the technical shortcomings to get to them.
I'll be interested to see if Jed's later novels are more fluent.
July 20, 2023
I couldn’t even finish this book. At first, I ignored the lack of comma use and run-on sentences, but then I couldn’t continue with the extreme sexism of the main character. The author paints all the female characters as brainless; despite the main character seeming like he is trying everything in the medical field for the first time.
He’s always describing the smell and looks of female nurses, but never describes any male counterparts. The nurses are always drinking tea and “chatting” and apparently can’t find standard hospital equipment when the doctor asks them to. Nurses are the lifeline of a hospital and this feeds into the stereotypical treatment that they continue to face.
He also treats his girlfriend like an idiot who doesn’t know any standard medical terms; even though she is dating a doctor. This would be forgivable for complex medical terms, but I’m sure she would know what a ventilator is. I hate not finishing books, but I just couldn’t do it.
He’s always describing the smell and looks of female nurses, but never describes any male counterparts. The nurses are always drinking tea and “chatting” and apparently can’t find standard hospital equipment when the doctor asks them to. Nurses are the lifeline of a hospital and this feeds into the stereotypical treatment that they continue to face.
He also treats his girlfriend like an idiot who doesn’t know any standard medical terms; even though she is dating a doctor. This would be forgivable for complex medical terms, but I’m sure she would know what a ventilator is. I hate not finishing books, but I just couldn’t do it.
October 2, 2023
Extremely bleak! Jed Mercurio, in TV and in print, writes medical drama like no one else. I can imagine his work may be inaccessible for those outside medical profession, but as a junior doctor the realism meant I was completely engrossed in the world of Mercurio's NHS hospital. Initially the frequent sex scenes seemed unnecessary (and maybe they were a bit much) but as the novel progressed it made sense as part of the main character's unsuccessful attempts to cope with his life within the hospital. If you've seen the TV show then many of the events will be familiar, as will the spiral into depression and constant cycling between bleak hospital scenes and similarly bleak sex scenes in gloomy hospital accommodation.
Recommended above House of God, because Bodies is both more real and despite all the misery, has more heart.
Recommended above House of God, because Bodies is both more real and despite all the misery, has more heart.
May 9, 2019
Jed Mercurio is a very successful writer, therefore II feel this is a very difficult book on which to give my opinion . The bones of the tale were without a doubt based on the writers own experiences as a very junior doctor ,and as such are very scary stories.
I worked as a nurse in a large Glasgow hospital and other NHS facilities for over 40 years,and although mistakes are made I was never aware of the level of incompetence described in this book. Perhaps Mercurio was just unlucky or worked in a very bad hospital. That said, this was a very well written book with strangely enough a great deal humour.I did like the style of of writing, but the sex scenes were a tad explicit and graphic and I was never sure if our young hero was boasting or complaining.
I worked as a nurse in a large Glasgow hospital and other NHS facilities for over 40 years,and although mistakes are made I was never aware of the level of incompetence described in this book. Perhaps Mercurio was just unlucky or worked in a very bad hospital. That said, this was a very well written book with strangely enough a great deal humour.I did like the style of of writing, but the sex scenes were a tad explicit and graphic and I was never sure if our young hero was boasting or complaining.
June 5, 2019
I was disappointed in some ways by this book which read like an autobiography. I know it was based on the author ‘s experience but despite a glossary at the end, it was difficult to follow many of the medical procedures. The concept of referring to patients by nickname or illness worked in terms of depersonalisation but the point was driven home with a sledgehammer. The affair with a nurse was cynical and clinical even when it became obvious that the couple were in love, and the redemptive ending stretched the bounds of belief too far. However, the point about hospitals’ fears of litigation and the politics of medical practice were well made and chilling.
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May 19, 2021
Being a huge fan of Mercurio's "Line of Duty" TV show and his television writing in general, I was excited to start reading his novels. Knowing that "Bodies" had been adapted for TV I wanted to read the novel before watching the TV show. It was a remarkable book, albeit unflinchingly honest and dark and did nothing to assuage my fear of hospitals having spent so much time in them as a youth. It clearly draws on Mercurio's time as a physician and the narrative personalizes the stories we read of the brutal lives of junior doctors. Leaves one wondering "what type of person would choose this career?" Recommended.
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January 1, 2024watched like 80% of cardiac arrest on youtube, then read this, then watched bodies on Netflix.. they’re all basically the same and cover the same themes/material. Somewhat light on actual comedy i fear it’s all v dark and cynical and everyone is depressed. But still compelling. Which is like.. accurate to life.. STILL.. when This Is Going To Hurt is your cheery younger brother what is going on.
Writing wise iirc there are a few quirks (especially to do with the ~grittiness of the sex scenes and general perspective) that made me roll my eyes but the detachment is in character, saur
Writing wise iirc there are a few quirks (especially to do with the ~grittiness of the sex scenes and general perspective) that made me roll my eyes but the detachment is in character, saur
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July 1, 2019
This was a gripping read, and almost read as if much if it was true, it felt as if many of the situations described were very real. It's a novel about covering up medical mistakes, the ethics of whistleblowing and the difficulties of reconciling personal conscience with professional relationships. There was also a lot about the main character's sexual relationships, and I felt that the book would have been better without so much of this detail!
May 2, 2021
another brilliant read
I am a retired ward sister and reading this book brought back so many many memories, working in an A&E department things like this happened, when I first started nursing, that was forty years ago and hopefully things have changed ,a great book and I would advise every person thinking of going into medicine to read this because it's an eye opener,also it's also a great career.well done to Jed Mercurio again ,this would make a brilliant TV series.
I am a retired ward sister and reading this book brought back so many many memories, working in an A&E department things like this happened, when I first started nursing, that was forty years ago and hopefully things have changed ,a great book and I would advise every person thinking of going into medicine to read this because it's an eye opener,also it's also a great career.well done to Jed Mercurio again ,this would make a brilliant TV series.
October 3, 2024
I agree with another reviewer that this read more like a memoir. Unlike some others, I actually liked that the medical jargon was left intact. I enjoyed it mostly and it was a quick read for me on audio because of that. I'm no prude, but I actually found the crudeness of the language used in the abundant graphic sex put me off somewhat, even though I understood the context and what it was trying to convey.
July 28, 2025
While medically dated now (more obvious if you have a medical background like me), this book is a terrifying, gruesome, graphic and extremely realistic tale of life as a doctor rising through that ranks and surviving, not thriving, as they do so. The claustrophobic world of the hospital, the sharp divide between reality and what others perceive medicine to be, and the human foibles of doctors and nurses are all laid bare. Highly recommend the tv series too adapted from the book.
May 23, 2019
The tales of a newly qualified House Officer, the novel begins with the misdiagnosis of a Pulmonary Embolism and ends with a whistleblowing on the staggering mistakes and cover ups in an NHS hospital.
A disturbingly, viscerally real, text which is a dark answer to 'Dr Findlay's Casebook', 'Bodies' is well worth the read, even if Mercurio's bleak outlook can be depressing.
A disturbingly, viscerally real, text which is a dark answer to 'Dr Findlay's Casebook', 'Bodies' is well worth the read, even if Mercurio's bleak outlook can be depressing.
June 12, 2019
The Medical World prior to Bristol Paed Heart Surgery problem and Pre Dr Shipman. When whistleblowing was just not done. A frightening secretive world full of cover-ups & lies. One of best medical book ever read, very real
September 27, 2019
Grim! Whilst reading this I kept having to remind myself that it was fiction, it felt way too real and has possibly put me off ever visiting a hospital!
Extremely well written, authentic and super grim reading! Don’t read if you’re feeling a bit under the weather or currently sitting in A&E!
Extremely well written, authentic and super grim reading! Don’t read if you’re feeling a bit under the weather or currently sitting in A&E!
August 18, 2020
Although this is clearly billed as a novel the raw, passionate and heartfelt prose made it read like a memoir. Jed Mercurio is an outstanding writer and his TV career demonstrates just how good he is. I read into the night to finish this book and that doesn't happen very often.
September 9, 2020
Frighteningly realistic, though I wonder whether 'lay people' would find the terminology difficult, even with the glossary at the back of the book. Mercurio certainly gets the reader in the headspace of this young Doctor.
August 20, 2021
Outstanding Read
A fabulous book that I quite simply couldn’t put down. An effective, enthralling and detailed window into the life of a junior doctor, which made me question my own humanity on more than one occasion. Highly recommended.
A fabulous book that I quite simply couldn’t put down. An effective, enthralling and detailed window into the life of a junior doctor, which made me question my own humanity on more than one occasion. Highly recommended.
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