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Vital Signs
Heartbreaking, sometimes hilarious stories of a junior doctor's first year
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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 Izzy be a thorough and compassionate doctor while still leaving work before...
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Vital Signs
An insight into what it's like to be a first-year junior doctor - the ups and downs, the drama, and how terrifying it is to finally be making decisions.
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Description
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 Izzy be a thorough and compassionate doctor while still leaving work before 7 p.m.? How does she uphold dignity and autonomy for people whose liberty has been taken because of severe mental illness? How will she know when what can be done for a critically ill patient is different from what should be done? And is this floor clean enough for her to sleep on?
Izzy grapples with these questions and more as she rotates through psychiatry, orthopaedics, medicine and surgery.
Thoughtful, funny, and at times heartbreaking, Vital Signs 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, chug your coffee; ward rounds start at 6.45.
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781988547909
Publisher: Allen & Unwin Aotearoa New Zealand
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 20 September 2022
Country: New Zealand
Imprint: Allen & Unwin Aotearoa New Zealand
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 18.0mm
Width: 156.0mm
Height: 235.0mm
Weight: 310g
Pages: 224
About the Author
Izzy Lomax-Sawyers is a doctor and a keen writer. She grew up in Westport as the oldest of six feral kids. Along with her MBChB from the University of Otago, she has a BA in Linguistics from Victoria University of Wellington. Her writing has featured in The New Zealand Herald, the Poetry New Zealand Yearbook, and on the medical humanities blog Corpus.
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