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The Bad Doctor #2
The Lady Doctor
The Lady Doctor is the follow-up companion graphic novel to Ian Williams’s critically acclaimed debut, The Bad Doctor.
Dr Lois Pritchard is a salaried partner at Llangandida Health Centre with Drs Iwan James (subject of The Bad Doctor) and Robert Smith. She also works two days a week in the local Genitourinary Medicine (GUM) clinic. She is 40, currently single, despite the attentions of her many admirers, and is, by her own admission, ‘not very good with relationships’. When her estranged mother makes a dramatic appearance on the scene, demanding a liver transplant, Lois has to confront her loyalties and make some hard decisions.
From the moment we see Dr Lois nipping out behind the surgery for a fag, we know we are in for a behind-the-scenes warts-and-all comedy drama. We meet a patient who regrets the Pinocchio face he had tattooed on his genitals; a man who resorts to desperate measures after being driven mad by his neighbours’ cats, and a prescription drug addict who plans to sue his previous doctors for failing to refuse him the drugs he demanded. Drugs – prescription, recreational, legal (coffee, alcohol, tobacco) – and behaviours and attitudes surrounding them – are a hot topic at Llangandida Health Centre. Hardening government attitudes towards drugs and addiction, and patients’ demands to benefit from the re emergence of psychedelic therapeutic research, don’t make a doctor’s life any easier, but Williams explores current medical issues and ethics with his trademark lightness of touch and wonderfully sly sense of humour, using his own experience as a practising GP to recreate the lives of both patients and health service practitioners.
Dr Lois Pritchard is a salaried partner at Llangandida Health Centre with Drs Iwan James (subject of The Bad Doctor) and Robert Smith. She also works two days a week in the local Genitourinary Medicine (GUM) clinic. She is 40, currently single, despite the attentions of her many admirers, and is, by her own admission, ‘not very good with relationships’. When her estranged mother makes a dramatic appearance on the scene, demanding a liver transplant, Lois has to confront her loyalties and make some hard decisions.
From the moment we see Dr Lois nipping out behind the surgery for a fag, we know we are in for a behind-the-scenes warts-and-all comedy drama. We meet a patient who regrets the Pinocchio face he had tattooed on his genitals; a man who resorts to desperate measures after being driven mad by his neighbours’ cats, and a prescription drug addict who plans to sue his previous doctors for failing to refuse him the drugs he demanded. Drugs – prescription, recreational, legal (coffee, alcohol, tobacco) – and behaviours and attitudes surrounding them – are a hot topic at Llangandida Health Centre. Hardening government attitudes towards drugs and addiction, and patients’ demands to benefit from the re emergence of psychedelic therapeutic research, don’t make a doctor’s life any easier, but Williams explores current medical issues and ethics with his trademark lightness of touch and wonderfully sly sense of humour, using his own experience as a practising GP to recreate the lives of both patients and health service practitioners.
264 pages, Paperback
Published February 18, 2019
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Ian Williams
3 books26 followersIan Williams is a comics artist, writer and doctor who lives in Brighton. His graphic novel, The Bad Doctor, was published in 2014 and followed up in 2019 by The Lady Doctor. Both were critically acclaimed and he is working on his third, for the same publishers, provisionally entitled The Sick Doctor, which will be published in 2022. He studied Fine Art after medical school and then became involved in the Medical Humanities movement. He named the area of study called Graphic Medicine, building the eponymous website in 2007, which he currently co-edits. He is Founder of the not-for-profit Graphic Medicine International Cooperative and co-author of the Eisner-nominated Graphic Medicine Manifesto. He has been the recipient of several grants has contributed to numerous medical, humanities, and comics publications, has sat on the board of a number of arts and humanities organisations and is currently an affiliated researcher to the Centre for Memory, Narrative and Histories at the University of Brighton. Between May 2015 and January 2017 he drew a weekly comic strip, Sick Notes, for The Guardian.
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May 23, 2019
Part of the graphic medicine comics book series, though this book focuses on the doctor and not the patient, as in My Degeneration: Journey through Parkinson's, A Thousand Colored Castles (Charles Bonnet Syndrome), and Aliceheimers, which all help us (though maybe doctors, mostly, or medical students) develop a sense of empathy for real medical conditions. The Lady Doctor is the second in a series focused on a small clinic in Wales; the first book, which I haven't read yet, focuses on Dr. Iwan James, The Bad Doctor.
This one focuses on the real life of Dr. Lois Pritchard, who works a couple of days at the clinic and has to deal with several funny patients and their weird/annoying behaviors. She's having relationship struggles, her estranged mother suddenly reappears in her life, hoping Lois will give her a liver transplant. There's a lot of funny anecdotes that would appear to draw on Dr Williams' considerable experience as a GP, and not a small amount of drugs make their appearance. This one humanizes and makes realistic the doctor's life, useful for patients to develop their own sense of empathy for doctors, and doctors in training, to get a sense of what they have in their futures, maybe.
This one focuses on the real life of Dr. Lois Pritchard, who works a couple of days at the clinic and has to deal with several funny patients and their weird/annoying behaviors. She's having relationship struggles, her estranged mother suddenly reappears in her life, hoping Lois will give her a liver transplant. There's a lot of funny anecdotes that would appear to draw on Dr Williams' considerable experience as a GP, and not a small amount of drugs make their appearance. This one humanizes and makes realistic the doctor's life, useful for patients to develop their own sense of empathy for doctors, and doctors in training, to get a sense of what they have in their futures, maybe.
June 18, 2019
Lois is a small-town doctor in Walesland wondering if she should become a partner in her practice - and then her estranged mother shows up after twenty years apart! Pobol y cym, wha she dooo?
I really liked Ian Williams’ The Lady Doctor. This dude’s a real life doctor AND this accomplished a cartoonist? Some people, eh?
Having been born and raised in Wales (Cardiff mostly but I’ve been to the valleys many times), I thought Williams captured small-town Welsh life perfectly. I appreciated the inside look at a doctor’s day-to-day though I’m also very familiar with the NHS.
The various patients Lois deals with were mostly interesting to read about. One older dude has a Pinocchio tattoo above his penis, which is, of course, the nose (“He doesn’t tell so many lies, nowadays” - HA!), another is addicted to diazepam and will do anything to get his scripts filled, and I laughed out loud when Lois had to do the Heimlich in a restaurant on a poor old lady who ended up shitting herself instead!
The drama with her mum was a bit predictable, a tad daytime TV movie-mawkish, and was the only real part of the book that I didn’t find as compelling. Lois’ occasional rants about “the patriarchy” were cringey and I don’t think those parts will age well.
Mostly though I was thoroughly entertained and impressed with this skilfully made and well-told story of a modern day country doctor. Da iawn, Ian!
I really liked Ian Williams’ The Lady Doctor. This dude’s a real life doctor AND this accomplished a cartoonist? Some people, eh?
Having been born and raised in Wales (Cardiff mostly but I’ve been to the valleys many times), I thought Williams captured small-town Welsh life perfectly. I appreciated the inside look at a doctor’s day-to-day though I’m also very familiar with the NHS.
The various patients Lois deals with were mostly interesting to read about. One older dude has a Pinocchio tattoo above his penis, which is, of course, the nose (“He doesn’t tell so many lies, nowadays” - HA!), another is addicted to diazepam and will do anything to get his scripts filled, and I laughed out loud when Lois had to do the Heimlich in a restaurant on a poor old lady who ended up shitting herself instead!
The drama with her mum was a bit predictable, a tad daytime TV movie-mawkish, and was the only real part of the book that I didn’t find as compelling. Lois’ occasional rants about “the patriarchy” were cringey and I don’t think those parts will age well.
Mostly though I was thoroughly entertained and impressed with this skilfully made and well-told story of a modern day country doctor. Da iawn, Ian!
January 29, 2019
This sequel to Ian Williams’s 2014 graphic novel The Bad Doctor returns to a medical practice in small-town Wales. This time, though, the focus is on Iwan James’s colleague, Dr. Lois Pritchard, who also puts in two days a week treating embarrassing ailments at the local hospital’s genitourinary medicine clinic. At nearly 40, Lois is a divorcee with no children, just a dog. She enjoys nights out drinking with her best friend, Geeta, but her carefree life is soon beset by complications: she has to decide whether she wants to join the health center as a full partner, a tryst with her new fella goes horribly wrong, and her estranged mother suddenly reappears in her life, hoping Lois will give her a liver transplant. And that’s not to mention all the drug addicts and VD-ridden lotharios hanging about.
Williams was a GP in North Wales for 20 years; no doubt his experiences have inspired his comics. His tone is wonderfully balanced: there are plenty of hilarious, somewhat raunchy scenes, but also a lot of heartfelt moments as Lois learns that a doctor is never completely off duty and you have no idea what medical or personal challenge will crop up next. The drawing style reminds me of Alison Bechdel’s (and in the cover blurb she says, “Ian Williams is the best thing to happen to medicine since penicillin”), with single colors from pink to olive alternating as the background. I especially loved the pages where each panel depicts a different patient to show the breadth of people and complaints a doctor might see in a day.
This review is on the short side for me, but I don’t want to resort to spoilers, so will just say that if you’re a fan of Bechdel and Posy Simmonds, or if you are unfamiliar with graphic novels and fancy trying one, do seek this out. The medical theme made it a must for me. In fact, Myriad Editions have a whole “Graphic Medicine” series that I’ll be keen to explore.
Originally published, with images, on my blog, Bookish Beck.
Williams was a GP in North Wales for 20 years; no doubt his experiences have inspired his comics. His tone is wonderfully balanced: there are plenty of hilarious, somewhat raunchy scenes, but also a lot of heartfelt moments as Lois learns that a doctor is never completely off duty and you have no idea what medical or personal challenge will crop up next. The drawing style reminds me of Alison Bechdel’s (and in the cover blurb she says, “Ian Williams is the best thing to happen to medicine since penicillin”), with single colors from pink to olive alternating as the background. I especially loved the pages where each panel depicts a different patient to show the breadth of people and complaints a doctor might see in a day.
This review is on the short side for me, but I don’t want to resort to spoilers, so will just say that if you’re a fan of Bechdel and Posy Simmonds, or if you are unfamiliar with graphic novels and fancy trying one, do seek this out. The medical theme made it a must for me. In fact, Myriad Editions have a whole “Graphic Medicine” series that I’ll be keen to explore.
Originally published, with images, on my blog, Bookish Beck.
May 24, 2019
Lois Pritchard is a doctor in her forties whose life seems to be in a rut. She's been offered partnership in the health center where she's a GP, but she's not sure she wants that. And then her estranged mother comes back into her life, and what she wants, well, you’ll just have to read it and see ...
Although this is billed as a sequel to The Bad Doctor, there aren't any strong ties between the two. Both protagonists are doctors who practice in Wales. And the titles of the books are similar. That's about it. Possibly some characters recur between them, but it's been so long since I read The Bad Doctor that, if they did, I didn't notice.
What I don't know about being a doctor could fill volumes, but this seems like an insider’s view of the job. It's a fascinating look at the details of doctor/patient relationships, which are more complex than I had ever imagined. The story flows nicely. The characters seem like real people and not just puppets under an author’s control. The artwork is lovely, particularly the ways in which Williams uses color (and yes, I know that it seems like he isn't at first. Just trust me, okay?)
Highly recommended!
Although this is billed as a sequel to The Bad Doctor, there aren't any strong ties between the two. Both protagonists are doctors who practice in Wales. And the titles of the books are similar. That's about it. Possibly some characters recur between them, but it's been so long since I read The Bad Doctor that, if they did, I didn't notice.
What I don't know about being a doctor could fill volumes, but this seems like an insider’s view of the job. It's a fascinating look at the details of doctor/patient relationships, which are more complex than I had ever imagined. The story flows nicely. The characters seem like real people and not just puppets under an author’s control. The artwork is lovely, particularly the ways in which Williams uses color (and yes, I know that it seems like he isn't at first. Just trust me, okay?)
Highly recommended!
March 15, 2024
4.5
I haven't read 'The Bad Doctor', but this so called second part in the series (with total unrelated main characters in both), surely got me pretty entertained.
It is kind of mind blowing to think the author/artist is also a doctor, because his art was indeed noticeable, and I really enjoyed the color palette throughout the whole volume, and the use of color to mark the different scenes.
The story combines the professional anecdotes of the title character, with some personal life drama, with both parts being equally engaging, and very informative, and sometimes even thought provoking. This graphic novel sure does a great job in humanizing that quasi mythical figure of THE DOCTOR, with its honest and empathetic approach to all the characters like faulty human beings. With all the crap that they have to put up with, it's not mystery some of them act like assholes some times... then, you know, there's also your occasional Lady Gaga: they were just born that way...
Drug use, family relationships, the delicate balance between personal and professional life... All of it with the right dose of comic interludes to offer a superb reading experience, so I would give it a try if I was you.
I haven't read 'The Bad Doctor', but this so called second part in the series (with total unrelated main characters in both), surely got me pretty entertained.
It is kind of mind blowing to think the author/artist is also a doctor, because his art was indeed noticeable, and I really enjoyed the color palette throughout the whole volume, and the use of color to mark the different scenes.
The story combines the professional anecdotes of the title character, with some personal life drama, with both parts being equally engaging, and very informative, and sometimes even thought provoking. This graphic novel sure does a great job in humanizing that quasi mythical figure of THE DOCTOR, with its honest and empathetic approach to all the characters like faulty human beings. With all the crap that they have to put up with, it's not mystery some of them act like assholes some times... then, you know, there's also your occasional Lady Gaga: they were just born that way...
Drug use, family relationships, the delicate balance between personal and professional life... All of it with the right dose of comic interludes to offer a superb reading experience, so I would give it a try if I was you.
December 7, 2019
3.5 Stars!
Magic mushrooms, drug addiction, man trouble, parent problems, cancer, drunken sex and a Pinocchio tattoo around a man’s member are just some of the shenanigans which go on in here. This was a really enjoyable little story, although set in the parochial backwaters of rural Wales its themes are pretty universal and relatable and there is plenty of humour in here too.
The art work isn’t great but it still works nicely with the story, fitting the tone and mood well. The scenes describing the mushroom trip were painfully clichéd and resembled the bad art work from a crap psychedelic 60s album cover, but there were some clever references tucked away here and there which I enjoyed. This isn’t as powerful as the predecessor, if you haven’t read “The Bad Doctor” yet then I suggest you do. But this was still a good read and it can be read on its own.
February 8, 2019
A follow-up that I may actually enjoy more than the original - a tall order in this case. There are discussions here ranging from drug use (legal, illegal, and those somewhere in-between), the complicated relationship between home and professional life (a smart, clear look at how they are seldom truly separate), and how the privatization of medicine in the UK is impacting practitioner and patient alike (hint: as someone in the US, YOU DO NOT WANT OUR HEALTHCARE SYSTEM).
It isn't my job anymore, but I really want to create a book club kit around this to be used with medical students - perhaps as a follow-up once they've done The Bad Doctor one already made.
All that said, for me, the real reason to 5-star this and recommend it so strongly is the color palette. If I say much more than that, it might constitute spoilers. And I REALLY want to share some of my favorite panels widely soon, so hurry up and read so I don't feel as bad about it!
(Full disclosure requires me to state that I know the creator.)
February 23, 2019
THE LADY DOCTOR is Ian William's follow-up to THE BAD DOCTOR. Funny. Pertinent. Enlightening. THE LADY DOCTOR follows the story of Dr. Lois Pritchard and has a supporting cast of eccentric patients. Dr. Lois' experiences can't possibly be more recognizable to those in the medical field today: The bureaucracy of small-town practices, demanding and ill-informed patients, double-standards for female clinicians, and more. And for those of us who aren't medical practitioners, estranged family members and unhealthy coping mechanisms feel close to home.
Williams is a master of humanizing clinicians with terrific illustrations and compelling, realistic storytelling. Bottom line: THE BAD DOCTOR is good, THE LADY DOCTOR is great, and Ian Williams is the greatest.
Williams is a master of humanizing clinicians with terrific illustrations and compelling, realistic storytelling. Bottom line: THE BAD DOCTOR is good, THE LADY DOCTOR is great, and Ian Williams is the greatest.
November 2, 2019
This wonderful graphic novel follows Lois, a Lady Doctor, who works part time as a GP and part time in a GUM clinic in Wales. I have a few friends who are doctors, and as someone who loves their own GP, it really opened up my eyes to what doctors go through. From the sleep deprivation to the rude patients day after day, Dr Ian Williams, shows the nitty gritty of life as a doctor. But don't let that put you off! The human side to the story also pulls you in. You really feel for the main character, Lois, as she deals with family, career and her own health. An amazing read, with beautiful art.
September 1, 2022
As a look into the relentlessness of working in the health service, which I under significant and multiple pressures, this is great.
I wanted to feel for the main character more though. She's objectively quite a difficult person to like and much as I appreciated her lack of judgement for other people's sex lives as a doctor, almost every other way she interacted with anyone was selfish or rude. On one occasion potentially homicidal.
The graphics were beautiful and they really showcase the Welsh setting perfectly.
I wanted to feel for the main character more though. She's objectively quite a difficult person to like and much as I appreciated her lack of judgement for other people's sex lives as a doctor, almost every other way she interacted with anyone was selfish or rude. On one occasion potentially homicidal.
The graphics were beautiful and they really showcase the Welsh setting perfectly.
January 18, 2020
Good story. Funny but real. Artwork was nice but nothing that would make you amazed!!
I found the story jumped a bit and I was looking for more comical representation of patient stories/consultations because they were done so well.
I suppose it’s what you expect or want from the story. I will definitely pick up his other work but I wouldn’t be amassed by this graphic novel. A bit silly at times
I found the story jumped a bit and I was looking for more comical representation of patient stories/consultations because they were done so well.
I suppose it’s what you expect or want from the story. I will definitely pick up his other work but I wouldn’t be amassed by this graphic novel. A bit silly at times
May 4, 2020
Did not finish -- the main character was super unlikable.
July 5, 2021
Thoroughly enjoyed this - picked it up on a whim in my local Waterstones and blazed through it in afternoon. There's a lot to love - a put upon GP, set in a Welsh location and dealing with estrangement AND she's in her late 30s early 40s. I think this comic (having not read the first one) captures that absolute banality of being a GP and speaking to random people everyday about their ailments (some real, some not). And then her life around and outside of that.
September 10, 2021
The Bad Doctor feels a bit like a slice of life type of story, while this one (probably because Williams had a bit more practice) was a longer story focusing on more tiny elements. It did follow more clearly a plot, but what I like about this and The Bad Doctor is the attention to the small things that create a person's whole life.
July 7, 2020
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I loved Ian Williams' first book, The Bad Doctor and was looking forward to see what he did with The Lady Doctor.
Lois is a very different character to Iwan and the complete polar opposite of me as a doctor. This creates a lot more opportunity for drama than in the previous book and there's more story to it as a result. More happens, in other words.
It paints a very recognisable picture of general practice, however, Lois' behaviour gets quite extreme. For the purposes of a fictional story though, she is believable and relatable, if not likeable. I suppose you can enjoy a story without agreeing with everything the protagonist does; that's what makes a character interesting.
Although it gains drama, it loses some of the heart of the first book. I liked it and I laughed out loud at times and it was a page turner, but it didn't have the subtlety and warmth of the first.
If you want to enter the world of general practice, I'd recommend reading the first one and if you like it, read this one too!
I loved Ian Williams' first book, The Bad Doctor and was looking forward to see what he did with The Lady Doctor.
Lois is a very different character to Iwan and the complete polar opposite of me as a doctor. This creates a lot more opportunity for drama than in the previous book and there's more story to it as a result. More happens, in other words.
It paints a very recognisable picture of general practice, however, Lois' behaviour gets quite extreme. For the purposes of a fictional story though, she is believable and relatable, if not likeable. I suppose you can enjoy a story without agreeing with everything the protagonist does; that's what makes a character interesting.
Although it gains drama, it loses some of the heart of the first book. I liked it and I laughed out loud at times and it was a page turner, but it didn't have the subtlety and warmth of the first.
If you want to enter the world of general practice, I'd recommend reading the first one and if you like it, read this one too!
March 15, 2021
A sequel of sorts to The Bad Doctor and a good step forward for Williams's art style --- there's a simplification in the line art that clarifies characterization and works wells with the muted coloring. (Kinda reminds me of Andi Watson.) And I liked that Williams was working with a longer plotline (the life of a coworker of the first book's protagonist, her work in the practice and a "clap" clinic, her unexpected reconnection with family). But the plotting still frustrated me at times, with coincidences too frequent and resolutions too pat.
March 14, 2021
Lois, a supporting character in The Bad Doctor: The Troubled Life and Times of Dr. Iwan James, gets her story fleshed out nicely in this, the second book of a proposed trilogy. Unfortunately, I didn’t find her struggles as interesting as Iwan’s in volume one. On the other hand, the surprise ending packed quite a punch and might make a good setup for the final volume, which presumably will focus on Robert, the third doctor in the practice. So I’ll say walk, don’t run to pick this one up.
April 9, 2019
Officially a sequel or follow-up, but I think it stood just fine on its own. I'm not entirely sure whether it's fictional or not though! It was placed under memoirs at the bookshop, but the back blurb definitely came across as fiction.
Never mind. Either way it was a really interesting read about all the ups and downs of the life of a doctor. I liked that it wasn't romanticized - it was clear it was hard, messy, frustrating work, and that the Lady Doctor definitely wasn't anywhere near a saint, but a human being with all her own failings.
Never mind. Either way it was a really interesting read about all the ups and downs of the life of a doctor. I liked that it wasn't romanticized - it was clear it was hard, messy, frustrating work, and that the Lady Doctor definitely wasn't anywhere near a saint, but a human being with all her own failings.
February 7, 2025
I wanted to read this because I read "The Bad Doctor" and liked it. However, that was not true of "The Lady Doctor." I should say that the story takes place in Wales, not the US. At the beginning she seemed very harsh and critical of her patients. She did get more likeable as the story went on because she focused on being more empathatic. However, part of that being more understanding and being happy was because she was introduced to mushrooms.
I think part of the reason I didn't like her was the way she was drawn with very sharp lines. Shouldn't make a difference but it did.
I think part of the reason I didn't like her was the way she was drawn with very sharp lines. Shouldn't make a difference but it did.
March 14, 2021
A graphic novel about a Lady Doctor who is having a tough time at he job and in general. I found this interesting and the illustrations simple but effective.
I enjoyed the story as we follow Lois through her everyday job as well as in her private life, with various boyfriends, nights out with friends and interactions with her estranged mother.
Plenty of topics were covered including alcoholism and drug abuse.
I enjoyed the story as we follow Lois through her everyday job as well as in her private life, with various boyfriends, nights out with friends and interactions with her estranged mother.
Plenty of topics were covered including alcoholism and drug abuse.
January 4, 2020
I was looking forward to this graphic novel, as the topic interests me, but I found it to be a little too much “wounded healer-ish.”
I know several young female physicians, and this doctor’s behaviour (smoking, drinking so much she has damaged her liver, having unprotected sex in her work washroom) seems over the top to me. Especially perhaps when it was written and illustrated by a male...
I know several young female physicians, and this doctor’s behaviour (smoking, drinking so much she has damaged her liver, having unprotected sex in her work washroom) seems over the top to me. Especially perhaps when it was written and illustrated by a male...
September 21, 2021
Idk man! I think I read The Bad Doctor and liked it pretty ok. Oh! It looks like it was a near miss.
Making the doctor a lady with loneliness and boy problems and an absent parent made it a hit for me!
And the microdosing shrooms was fine too I guess. :P Seems a bit of a deus ex machina.
Anyway, overall it was weirdly compelling to me, I suppose.
Making the doctor a lady with loneliness and boy problems and an absent parent made it a hit for me!
And the microdosing shrooms was fine too I guess. :P Seems a bit of a deus ex machina.
Anyway, overall it was weirdly compelling to me, I suppose.
March 2, 2023
Segunda entrega de la trilogía creada por el Dr. Ian Williams. A través de su estilo a su vez sencillo y refinado, muestra a través de la vivencia de la protagonista, la complejidad de la práctica de las disciplinas sanitaria.
Imprescindible para todo aquel interesado en la Medicina Gráfica, la salud y la complejidad humana
Imprescindible para todo aquel interesado en la Medicina Gráfica, la salud y la complejidad humana
January 19, 2019
It's only January but this could well turn out to be my book of the year. Life as a doctor can be a complicated business and Ian captures it brilliantly here, just like in his first graphic novel, The Bad Doctor.
May 31, 2019
The setting (both Wales and a clinic) started out unique, and the story that grew out of them kept getting more complex and interesting. I was impressed by this book and look forward to going back to read the first one.
July 22, 2019
Although I didn't love the artwork in the graphic novel, I founds the story very compelling and the illustrations grew on me. It was also interesting to see health care from another country's perspective.
July 4, 2021
I was liking this slice of life story about a general practitioner, especially in her dealing with difficult patients. Then, at the climax, she takes a mushroom trip that solves all her problems. It didn't ruin the book, but it certainly felt naive.
February 14, 2019
Hilarious and on the nail.
July 10, 2019
Lots of interesting and humorous clinical scenes. A real novel with complicated personal relationships. I liked the art a lot, and the commentary about the stressful medical system. Ultimately the story is about psychedelics leading to a realization that brings someone out of depression. But the visual depiction of psychedelics was cliche (although I liked how we entered into full panel color) and the life changing realization was rushed. It felt like a deus ex machina ending. I liked the dogs. The artist didn’t just draw a bunch of talking heads. Many of the patients complaints were about genitals. See again interesting and humorous clinical scenes.
What I learned: Mari Lwyd is a welsh tradition of dressing up like a horse skull bride? I should research why.
What I learned: Mari Lwyd is a welsh tradition of dressing up like a horse skull bride? I should research why.
January 25, 2020
I don’t remember why I checked this book out. I don’t like it nor dislike it. It’s just...there
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