Confessions of a British Doctor

Confessions of a British Doctor
Benjamin Daniels

THE UK’S BESTSELLING EBOOK OF 2011.Benjamin Daniels is angry. He is frustrated, confused, baffled and, quite frequently, very funny. He is also a GP. These are his confessions.A woman troubled by pornographic dreams about Tom Jones. An 80-year-old man who can't remember why he's come to see the doctor. A woman with a common cold demanding (but not receiving) antibiotics. A man with a sore knee. A young woman who has been trying to conceive for a while but now finds herself pregnant and isn't sure she wants to go through with it. A 7-year-old boy with 'tummy aches' that don't really exist.These are his patients.Confessions of a GP is a witty insight into the life of a family doctor. Funny and moving in equal measure it will change the way you look at your GP next time you pop in with the sniffles.

BENJAMIN DANIELS

Confessions of a British Doctor

Table of Contents

Title Page (#ue209a808-b357-5467-b914-bb4db5624099)

Disclaimer (#u5beea4da-8918-50be-acdd-a5862b0201e2)

Who am I? (#ub23ade06-c098-5e9e-b18a-692d3e4ee776)

Introduction (#uef0889c5-deac-5bda-a8fc-60292421a808)

Mrs Peacock (#u0fea5670-fd5b-5bfd-af5b-1c6628fe039e)

Tom Jones (#u22e1ca33-6dbd-5c09-b3df-f8bc69f9f758)

First day (#u2a08fd83-6868-51f8-91fe-fe7c37cd7807)

Jargon (#uf3f67bcf-339e-55b3-9a5c-53c20ffbcae8)

Proud to work for the National Health Service (NHS) (#u16d411c5-0623-5784-838c-630e3365931f)

Drug reps (#u2e14ce27-d985-5542-bafb-fa3800df6c9c)

Mr Tipton, the paedophile (#u019db93d-782b-5afe-97c8-78334acaedec)

Average day (#u9b5d7704-eaf6-58fa-9d17-6f9c1956e01f)

Tara (#u95e060c5-f8bb-5e10-a7ae-8d73fb17103d)

Sex in the doctors clinic (#u6748f1b2-9211-528c-aced-59735da87fcc)

The elderly (#uf4f448c3-c16f-50c9-b619-ec300fb6dfc3)

Bums (#u500f94cb-6bb9-5314-8322-93088009d978)

Julia (#u7163ab0c-fca2-51b2-9d81-ef7a1fb90c58)

Good doctors (#u766ea4a0-0cec-5b23-ae6e-bd66be91b454)

Connor (#u1f5e66d1-7ed2-5e22-bd60-98b773d951b1)

Janine (#ubd5b017e-4933-5fd0-b3e4-a44e650c9658)

Saving lives (#u40e046a9-5fb4-5510-9fc4-87ca591a89e7)

Kirsty, the trannie (#litres_trial_promo)

‘It’s my boobs, Doc’ (#litres_trial_promo)

Mr Hogden (#litres_trial_promo)

Small talk (#litres_trial_promo)

Notes (#litres_trial_promo)

Ten minutes (#litres_trial_promo)

Alf (#litres_trial_promo)

Meningitis (#litres_trial_promo)

Uzma (#litres_trial_promo)

Africa (#litres_trial_promo)

Evidence (#litres_trial_promo)

Carolina (#litres_trial_promo)

Lee (#litres_trial_promo)

Hugging (#litres_trial_promo)

Tough Life Syndrome (#litres_trial_promo)

Mrs Briggs (#litres_trial_promo)

Betty Bale’s cat (#litres_trial_promo)

Vaccines (#litres_trial_promo)

Darryl (#litres_trial_promo)

The pat dog (#litres_trial_promo)

Rina (#litres_trial_promo)

Dos and don’ts (#litres_trial_promo)

Home births (#litres_trial_promo)

Michael (#litres_trial_promo)