Doctors. The Lives And Work Of GPs.

Umschlag leicht berieben, sonst gutes Exemplar. - Doctors are fascinating : set apart, speaking a different language, part-observers, part-actors in the saddest, the strangest, the most exalting experiences. Their rates of divorce, alcoholism, drug addiction and suicide are high. But what really goes on at the heart of a doctor's work? In the consultation, at births, deaths, with difficult patients, other doctors - above all, what is it like to be a doctor? Doctors, like Akenfield, uses the doctors' own words to give us a complete picture - both geographical and historical - of the way they live. After a short historical background the doctors themselves describe their history, recalling practices at the turn of the century, operations on kitchen tables, the violence and poverty of Glasgow in the twenties, the coming of the NHS, and the drug revolution. Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy has travelled all over Britain talking to dozens of GPs; from the private doctor with a superbly equipped subterranean surgery to over-worked inner-city GPs (one, in a Scottish slum practice, with patients too poor to have shoes) to a doctor alone in a remote Highland inducement practice. He visits with the doctors, sits in on consultations, goes to practice meetings and their (sometimes indiscreet) dinner parties. He interviews midwives, receptionists, district nurses, chemists, doctors' wives, medical students. He asks questions about preventative, 'anticipatory' and alternative medicine.

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