The English Doctor

Author : Lucy Ward
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2022-04-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780861542468

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The Empress and the English Doctor by Lucy Ward Pdf

A TIMES BEST BOOK OF 2022 SO FAR Shortlisted for the Pushkin House Book Prize 2022 ‘Sparkling history…with a fairytale atmosphere of sleigh rides, royal palaces and heroic risk-taking’ The Times A killer virus…an all-powerful Empress…an encounter cloaked in secrecy…the astonishing true story. Within living memory, smallpox was a dreaded disease. Over human history it has killed untold millions. Back in the eighteenth century, as epidemics swept Europe, the first rumours emerged of an effective treatment: a mysterious method called inoculation. But a key problem remained: convincing people to accept the preventative remedy, the forerunner of vaccination. Arguments raged over risks and benefits, and public resistance ran high. As smallpox ravaged her empire and threatened her court, Catherine the Great took the momentous decision to summon the Quaker physician Thomas Dimsdale to St Petersburg to carry out a secret mission that would transform both their lives. Lucy Ward expertly unveils the extraordinary story of Enlightenment ideals, female leadership and the fight to promote science over superstition. ‘A rich and wonderfully urgent work of history’ Tristram Hunt

Author : Sarah Morgan,Ryo Arisawa
Publisher : Harlequin / SB Creative
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2014-04-14
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9784596643995

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The English Doctor's Baby by Sarah Morgan,Ryo Arisawa Pdf

Alex is the unbelievably rich heir of a prestigious family, and not only does he live in a huge mansion, he's also good-looking, a brilliant doctor...and a confirmed bachelor. Jenny's younger sister, Chloe, claimed that this man was the father of her child, Daisy, before she passed away. Jenny wants more than anything for Alex to fulfill his responsibility as a father, so she brings Daisy to visit Alex at his house. The man she meets there is as much of a coldhearted playboy as the rumors claim. He gives the two of them an appraising look, and finally says, scornfully, "Is it money you're after? That's too bad. That baby isn't mine."?

Author : Dr Richard Sloan
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2012-08-24
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781477155608

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The English Doctor by Dr Richard Sloan Pdf

The book describes what goes on behind the scenes in undergraduate and postgraduate medical education, scientific research and general medical practice in the United Kingdom. It covers the years 1945 to 2012 and is an account of a unique medical journey. The author was brought up by parents who were general practitioners in Yorkshire. His upbringing was thoroughly middle class and his observations of his parents work and lifestyle resulted in his wanting to be a doctor. Medical student life at University College London was hard work. Several of his teachers were eminent and world famous. Two of them were Professors J Z Young (anatomy) and Andrew Huxley (Physiology and Nobel Prize winner). Life-long friendships were made with fellow students who worked together dissecting a human body. Experiments were performed on one another. The social life in the 1960s of a group of medical student friends is described. Studying octopuses and squid in Naples, Italy. Was part of an extra degree course which was undertaken before starting hospital clinical studies? These were at The London Hospital, Whitechapel, in the east end of London. There was so much to learn before being allowed to practice as a doctor. Clinical studies were undertaken at The London Hospital, Whitechapel. This is one of the oldest hospitals in the UK. There is a huge learning curve which resulted in a doctor just about able to deal with patients. A year of pre-registration work started on the medical wards at Mile End Hospital followed by a period in the Receiving Room (Accident and Emergency Department) at The London Hospital. The pre-registration house jobs sometimes involved working 100 hours a week. Nights in the accident emergency department were manned by one pre-registration house officer and a nurse. There is a description of what is involved undertaking research to PhD level in physiology. A new clinical thermometer was designed, tested and eventually manufactured and sold by the instrument developer Muirhead Ltd. So soon after being a student, the wheels had turned and the author was teaching students himself. There is an account of starting work as a General Practitioner in Cheltenham having not seen a single patient for the previous three years. After that he worked for a short time in a London practice and then in Castleford, West Yorkshire from 1978 to 2005. He and his wife build the practice up from a zero base to a thriving training practice housed in a large modern clinic. Doing this was financially risky as well as stressful. The development of postgraduate general practice education in Yorkshire in the last two decades of the twentieth century is described. There are descriptions of becoming a trainer of prospective GPs and then organising and managing trainers. The role of a GP tutor in the education of GPs was undertaken as a specific job. Work on the assessment of the competence of trainee GPs was overseen in the Yorkshire Deanery, based in Leeds, West Yorkshire. Work on the monitoring of the GP contract with the NHS and the GP appraisal scheme was undertaken by NHS Wakefield district, a Primary Care Trust. The author worked for both these bodies and what was involved in GP appraisal and inspection of practices target achievements is examined in detail. Work with ill and underperforming general practitioners is described as well as mentoring GPs with problems and worries. Very few patient problems and cases are included in this book which rather tells of the work that went on in the background. It is that work that produces high quality doctors and also year on year improvement in patient care. The last chapter involved informal interviews in 2012 with people studying and working in the same fields experienced over the years by the author and outlined above. Readers are asked to judge whether the present day situation is an improvement on

Author : Noah Gordon
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 984 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2012-06-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781453263747

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The Physician by Noah Gordon Pdf

An orphan leaves Dark Ages London to study medicine in Persia in this “rich” and “vivid” historical novel from a New York Times–bestselling author (The New York Times). A child holds the hand of his dying mother and is terrified, aware something is taking her. Orphaned and given to an itinerant barber-surgeon, Rob Cole becomes a fast-talking swindler, peddling a worthless medicine. But as he matures, his strange gift—an acute sensitivity to impending death—never leaves him, and he yearns to become a healer. Arab madrassas are the only authentic medical schools, and he makes his perilous way to Persia. Christians are barred from Muslim schools, but claiming he is a Jew, he studies under the world’s most renowned physician, Avicenna. How the woman who is his great love struggles against her only rival—medicine—makes a riveting modern classic. The Physician is the first book in New York Times–bestselling author Noah Gordon’s Dr. Robert Cole trilogy, which continues with Shaman and concludes with Matters of Choice.

Author : Dr H C A Vogel
Publisher : Random House
Page : 763 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2012-05-11
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781780574967

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The Nature Doctor by Dr H C A Vogel Pdf

The first British edition of this worldwide bestseller, The Nature Doctor, fully revised and updated, comes complete with comprehensive appendices, offering the reader easy access to wealth of information from the 'father' of natural healing. Dr H. C. A. Vogel comes from a Swiss family where the secrets of herbalism were known and practised. From early childhood he was eager to learn about the healing powers of plants and bit by bit he collected and expanded the traditional and empirical knowledge of European folk-medicine. Since 1929 he has reported his experiences and observations as a nature practitioner, nutritionist, researcher of medicinal plants and discoverer of natural healing powers, in his monthly periodical Gesundheitsnachrichten (A. Vogel's Health News). First published in 1952, The Nature Doctor has become a recognised standard publication even among medical doctors and scientists.

Author : Joy Parkinson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 044306136X

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A Manual of English for the Overseas Doctor by Joy Parkinson Pdf

Here's the latest edition of the very practical book for overseas doctors. This book helps to familiarize doctors with the colloquial English language spoken in their clinical work. This unique text is fully updated, including new case histories, new phrasal verbs, sample letters that include new relevant issues such as audit and trust-hospital organization, and new social changes and the language implications for doctors.

Author : Noah Webster
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1788 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1864
Category : Electronic
ISBN : ZHBL:ZHBL-00076834

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Dr. Webster's complete dictionary of the English language by Noah Webster Pdf

Author : Adam Kay
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Anecdotes
ISBN : 0316426741

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THIS IS GOING TO HURT by Adam Kay Pdf

This is a specially adapted version of Adam Kay's book 'This is Going to Hurt' for Quick Reads. Welcome to the life of a junior doctor. You work 97 hours a week. You make life and death decisions. You are often covered in blood (or worse) from head to toe. And the hospital parking meter earns more money than you do. Adam Kay's diary was written in secret after long days, sleepless nights and missed weekends. It is funny, moving and sometimes shocking. This is everything you wanted to know and more than a few things you didn't - about life on and off the hospital ward.

Author : John Berger
Publisher : Canongate Books
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2015-02-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781782115021

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A Fortunate Man by John Berger Pdf

In 1966 John Berger spent three months in the Forest of Dean shadowing an English country GP, John Sassall. Sassall is a fortunate man - his work occupies and fulfils him, he lives amongst the patients he treats, the line between his life and his work is happily blurred. In A Fortunate Man, Berger's text and the photography of Jean Mohr reveal with extraordinary intensity the life of a remarkable man. It is a portrait of one selfless individual and the rural community for which he became the hub. Drawing on psychology, biography and medicine A Fortunate Man is a portrait of sacrifice. It is also a profound exploration of what it means to be a doctor, to serve a community and to heal. With a new introduction by writer and GP, Gavin Francis.

Author : Dr Richard Sloan
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781477155585

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The English Doctor by Dr Richard Sloan Pdf

The book describes what goes on "behind the scenes" in undergraduate and postgraduate medical education, scientific research and general medical practice in the United Kingdom. It covers the years 1945 to 2012 and is an account of a unique medical journey. The author was brought up by parents who were general practitioners in Yorkshire. His upbringing was thoroughly middle class and his observations of his parents work and lifestyle resulted in his wanting to be a doctor. Medical student life at University College London was hard work. Several of his teachers were eminent and world famous. Two of them were Professors J Z Young (anatomy) and Andrew Huxley (Physiology and Nobel Prize winner). Life-long friendships were made with fellow students who worked together dissecting a human body. Experiments were performed on one another. The social life in the 1960s of a group of medical student friends is described. Studying octopuses and squid in Naples, Italy. Was part of an extra degree course which was undertaken before starting hospital clinical studies? These were at The London Hospital, Whitechapel, in the east end of London. There was so much to learn before being allowed to practice as a doctor. Clinical studies were undertaken at The London Hospital, Whitechapel. This is one of the oldest hospitals in the UK. There is a huge learning curve which resulted in a doctor just about able to deal with patients. A year of pre-registration work started on the medical wards at Mile End Hospital followed by a period in the Receiving Room (Accident and Emergency Department) at The London Hospital. The pre-registration house jobs sometimes involved working 100 hours a week. Nights in the accident emergency department were manned by one pre-registration house officer and a nurse. There is a description of what is involved undertaking research to PhD level in physiology. A new clinical thermometer was designed, tested and eventually manufactured and sold by the instrument developer Muirhead Ltd. So soon after being a student, the wheels had turned and the author was teaching students himself. There is an account of starting work as a General Practitioner in Cheltenham having not seen a single patient for the previous three years. After that he worked for a short time in a London practice and then in Castleford, West Yorkshire from 1978 to 2005. He and his wife build the practice up from a zero base to a thriving training practice housed in a large modern clinic. Doing this was financially risky as well as stressful. The development of postgraduate general practice education in Yorkshire in the last two decades of the twentieth century is described. There are descriptions of becoming a trainer of prospective GPs and then organising and managing trainers. The role of a GP tutor in the education of GPs was undertaken as a specific job. Work on the assessment of the competence of trainee GPs was overseen in the Yorkshire Deanery, based in Leeds, West Yorkshire. Work on the monitoring of the GP contract with the NHS and the GP appraisal scheme was undertaken by NHS Wakefield district, a Primary Care Trust. The author worked for both these bodies and what was involved in GP appraisal and inspection of practices' target achievements is examined in detail. Work with ill and underperforming general practitioners is described as well as mentoring GPs with problems and worries. Very few patient problems and cases are included in this book which rather tells of the work that went on in the background. It is that work that produces high quality doctors and also year on year improvement in patient care. The last chapter involved informal interviews in 2012 with people studying and working in the same fields experienced over the years by the author and outlined above. Readers are asked to judge whether the present day situation is an improvement on

Author : Anthony Betts
Publisher : Down East Books
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2014-10-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781608933808

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Green Wood and Chloroform by Anthony Betts Pdf

Like many new general practitioners in the 1950s, Dr. Anthoy Betts faced few real opportunities under the new British National Health Care system. So, with little more than a suitcase, he and his wife and two babies set off for the U.S.A. Moving to rural Maine in the middle of January, they quickly learned practical lessons about snow tires, long johns, dry gas, and the distinction between "green" and "white" firewood. Dr. Betts also found that his new practice sometimes required procedures not endorsed in any modern medical text—for example, home births took place atop a thick layer of newspapers spread on the floor in front of the wood stove! He was expected to be on call at all times, though he learned that if he hung a "Gone Fishing" sign on his door nobody would question his absence. And he also quickly learned not to trust verbal directions to houses on back-country roads. Despite the differences of language and social custom, the young urban Englishman was welcomed by most of his patients and fellow doctors—even sharing an office with Dr. Jack Hornberger, the real Hawkeye and author of M*A*S*H, newly returned from Korea to build his own practice. Dr. Betts's sense of humor helped him adapt to the strange culture he encountered in Maine. And it is that same wry amusement that makes this memoir so immensely enjoyable.

Author : Stephen Nickless,Norman Whitby
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2019-10-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1700647083

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Dear Doctor by Stephen Nickless,Norman Whitby Pdf

Dear Doctor is a course for doctors and other health professionals who need to write clearly and concisely in English. It is designed for self-study but can be adapted by teachers for classroom use. It provides full preparation for the letter writingcomponent of the OET.The materials were originally developed for a group of refugee doctors in London UK.The book contains 12 units which all follow the same format:* A set of case notes followed by a writing task.* Exercises on selecting and organising content.* Exercises on vocabulary and grammar points arising from the task.* A "writing clinic" on technical aspects of writing like paragraphing and spelling.* Study tips and exam tips.* Answer key to all exercises* Example letters written by British doctors.The course is suitable for students with English language at or above IELTS 5.0 or CEFR B1. It is now one of the finalists for the 2020 ELTons awards offered by the British Council for the best new ELT courses and projects. Norman Whitby MA TEFL has been teaching English to health professionals for many years. He has authored course books on business English and co-authored books on IELTS reading and writing skills.Stephen Nickless MRCGP is a retired doctor who teaches medical English and communication skills to international medical graduates at the Refugee Council.

Author : Samuel Johnson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1806
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0019740765

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A dictionary of the English language, compiled from Dr. Johnson; with the addition of words since familiarized to us ... and a comprehensive view of English grammar. The seventh edition by Samuel Johnson Pdf

Author : Kanta Gupta
Publisher : Diamond Pocket Books (P) Ltd.
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2004-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 817182031X

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Be Your Own Doctor by Kanta Gupta Pdf

Author : Gareth Roberts
Publisher : Random House
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2015-02-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781849909082

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The English Way of Death by Gareth Roberts Pdf

The Doctor, Romana, and K-9 are hoping for a holiday in London in the sweltering summer of 1930. But the TARDIS is warning of time pollution. And that's not the only problem. What connects the isolated Sussex resort of Nutchurch with the secret society run by the eccentric Percy Closed? Why has millionaire Hepworth Stackhouse dismissed his staff and hired assassin Julia Orlostro? And what is the truth behind the infernal vapour known only as Zodaal? With the heat building, the Doctor and his friends set out to solve the mysteries. An adventure set in 1930s London, featuring the Fourth Doctor as played by Tom Baker and his companions Romana and K-9.