Further Confessions of a GP
Benjamin Daniels
Benjamin Daniels is back. He may be older, wiser and more experienced, but his patients are no less outrageous.Drawing on his time working as a medical student, a locum, and a general practitioner, Dr Daniels would like to introduce you to …The old age pensioner who can’t keep his hands to himself.The teenager convinced that he lost his virginity and caught HIV sometime between leaving a bar and waking up in a kebab shop.A female patient Dr Daniels recognises from his younger, bachelor years.The woman whose mobile phone turns up in an unexpected place.A Jack Russell with a bizarre foot fetish.Crackhead Kenny.Not to mention the super nurses, anxious parents, hypochondriacs, jumpy medical students and kaleidoscope of care workers that make up Dr Daniels’ daily shift.Further Confessions of a GP is the eagerly anticipated follow-up to the bestselling Confessions of a GP. With more eyebrow-raising stories from the world of general practice, Dr Daniels will once again amuse, shock and surprise.You’ll never feel the same about going to the doctor again…
Further Confessions of a GP
DR BENJAMIN DANIELS
Disclaimer (#u305ef69c-c570-58ae-a7fc-8c02eeb06cd6)
The events described in this book are based on my experiences as a GP. For obvious reasons of privacy and confidentiality I have made certain changes, altered identifying features and fictionalised some aspects. Nonetheless, it remains an honest reflection of life as a doctor in Britain today. This is what it’s like. These things really happen!
This book is dedicated to my family and to coffee. If it wasn’t for my family the book would have been finished a year earlier. If it wasn’t for coffee, it wouldn’t have been finished at all.
Contents
Title Page (#ufa40295f-37c3-55cd-a043-69f79f2a5695)
Disclaimer
Dedication (#u5cbf62b8-99da-595b-b0e9-33ace4afe08a)
Introduction
First day
Sarah
Crackhead Kenny I
Maggie I
Brian and Deidre
Maggie II
Communication skills
Maggie III
Maggie IV
Can’t be too careful
Crackhead Kenny II
Army medical I
Tummy aches
Glass test
Mr Lorenzo
Pseudoseizures
Antibiotic resistance
Diabetes
Tarig I
Is the quality of NHS care really declining?
Jimmy Savile
Nathan
Army medical II
Betty Ferrari
Smelly bum
Tarig II
Should we know how much health care costs?
Danni I
The NHS, the envy of the world?
Don’t look down
Mrs Patrick
Danni II
Unnoticed
Man flu
Medical students
Taking benefits away from addicts
Stuck in the middle
Danni III