Further Confessions of a GP

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