{"title":"Max Pemberton","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"where-does-it-hurt-max-pemberton-medical-memoir-paperback","title":"Where Does it Hurt?: What the Junior Doctor Did Next by Max Pemberton - Non Fiction - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDetails\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\nCondition: New\u003cbr\u003e\nFormat: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\nISBN: 9780340919934\u003cbr\u003e\nPublisher: Hodder \u0026amp; Stoughton\u003cbr\u003e\nAge Range: Adult\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOverview\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\nWhere Does it Hurt? What the Junior Doctor Did Next is Max Pemberton's candid, funny and moving follow-up to his bestselling debut memoir. Now in his second year as a doctor, Max swaps the hospital ward for the unpredictable world of community outreach, treating some of society's most vulnerable and overlooked people. Written with warmth, wit and unflinching honesty, this paperback memoir offers a rare insider's view of medicine practised far from a hospital's safety, among people the system too often forgets.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Book\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\nHaving survived his first gruelling year on the wards, Max Pemberton joins the Phoenix Outreach Project, a scheme dedicated to finding and treating patients who fall through the cracks of mainstream healthcare. Armed with little more than a medical bag, endless tea and boundless enthusiasm, he ventures into homeless shelters, squats and the margins of the city to deliver care where it's needed most. Along the way he meets an unforgettable cast, including Molly, an eighty-year-old drugs mule, a man who believes himself to be God, and middle-class mothers quietly dependent on prescription painkillers. Pemberton's writing is sharp, self-deprecating and deeply compassionate, capturing both the absurdity and the tragedy of frontline outreach work. He doesn't shy away from the exhaustion, moral dilemmas and bureaucratic frustration of the job, but nor does he lose sight of the humour and humanity that keep him going. This is a memoir about growing into a doctor and a person, learning that medicine is as much about listening and empathy as diagnosis and treatment. Fans of his debut, Trust Me, I'm a (Junior) Doctor, will recognise the voice, honed here by experience and the harder truths of working with society's most marginalised patients. Where Does it Hurt? is hilarious, heartbreaking and hopeful, a genuine account of medicine practised well beyond hospital doors.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWritten by a practising NHS doctor with genuine frontline experience\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBlends laugh-out-loud humour with real emotional depth\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOffers rare insight into community outreach and social care in the UK\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePerfect follow-up for readers of Pemberton's debut memoir\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIdeal gift for medical students, NHS staff and memoir lovers\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\nMax Pemberton is a British doctor, journalist and author who works full-time as a psychiatrist within the NHS. Alongside his medical career, he has written a long-running national newspaper column on health, culture and social issues, bringing clinical experience to a wide readership. His warm, witty and deeply human writing style has made his memoirs bestsellers, offering readers an authentic window into the realities of modern medicine. Where Does it Hurt? continues the story begun in his debut, cementing his reputation as one of Britain's most engaging medical writers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhy You'll Love This Memoir\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\nHonest, funny and quietly profound, this paperback memoir suits anyone fascinated by real-life medicine, resilience and compassion in action. 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Drawn from his newspaper columns, the book follows Max from the night before his first shift through the chaos, exhaustion and unexpected humour of hospital life. It's a warm, witty memoir that pulls back the curtain on what really happens on the wards, told with the honesty of someone who lived every bleary-eyed, adrenaline-fuelled moment of it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Book\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\nIF YOU'RE GOING to be ill, it's best to avoid the first Wednesday in August. This is the day when newly qualified junior doctors graduate to their first placements and must put into practice everything they've spent six years learning. Starting on the evening before he begins work as a doctor, Max Pemberton charts his touching and funny journey through his first year in the NHS. Progressing from youthful idealism to frank bewilderment, Max quickly realises how little of his job is actually about \"saving people\" and how much of his time is instead taken up with signing forms and figuring out the important things that nobody explained during medical school, including the tricky question of how to tell whether a patient is actually dead. Along the way, Max and his fellow doctors grapple with the bigger questions of life and love, mental health in a gruelling profession, and the daily struggle of finding time to do the laundry. 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