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The true story of an A&E doctor that became a huge word-of-mouth hit - now revised and updated.
Forget what you have seen on Casualty or Holby City, this is what it is really like to be working in A&E.
Dr Nick Edwards writes with shocking honesty about life as an A&E doctor. He lifts the lid on government targets that led to poor patient care. He reveals the level of alcohol-related injuries that often bring the service to a near standstill. He shows just how bloody hard it is to look after the people who turn up at the hospital door.
But he also shares the funny side - the unusual ‘accidents’ that result in with weird objects inserted in places they really should have ended up - and also the moving, tragic and heartbreaking.
It really is an unforgettable read.
First published in 2007 when The Friday Project was a small independent, In Stitches went on to sell over 15,000 copies in the UK, the majority of which have come in the years since then. It has proved to be a real word-of-mouth hit.
This new edition includes lots of additional material bringing Nick’s story completely up to date including plenty more suprising, alarming, moving and unforgettable moments from behind the A&E curtain.
About the Author
Dr Nick Edwards is an Accident and Emergency (A&E) Doctor working in the UK and a passionate believer in the NHS. However the reforms, political correctness and the Anglo-Saxon culture of binge drinking and fighting and the resulting A&E visits are a strain on his sanity. So, to keep up his morale, he began writing down his feelings a form of literary cathartic therapy the results of which make up his first book 'In stitches the highs and lows of life as an A&E doctor.'
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61 of 62 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Last week I was in A&E after I broke my arm. All night I saw doctors and nurses running round like blue arsed flies and still mmanaging to keep cheerfull. It was after this that I saw the book and decided to buy it.
For the lay man it is truly eye opening. Never again shall I be fulled by tv soaps again! He writes in a throughly entertaing way whilst also managing to be informative about current problems in the NHS and society at large.
Once I started I couldn't put the book down. It was a superb read from start to finnish. I learnt a lot, got upset a bit, got frustrated on his behalf, but best of all laughed allowed a bit too much for a train journey!
Best book I have read this year
For the lay man it is truly eye opening. Never again shall I be fulled by tv soaps again! He writes in a throughly entertaing way whilst also managing to be informative about current problems in the NHS and society at large.
Once I started I couldn't put the book down. It was a superb read from start to finnish. I learnt a lot, got upset a bit, got frustrated on his behalf, but best of all laughed allowed a bit too much for a train journey!
Best book I have read this year
40 of 42 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
just finnished the book. It was truly excellent. For someone who has never worked in a hospital, it paints a compelling picture of what happens in AandE wards.
There are some very amusing stories as well as emotional aspects. However, the 'tounge in cheek' humor and sracstic humour provides an excellent way of telling his story. If you like me, work in the NHS, then there will be a lot you can associate with.
Does harp on a bit about the worryies of the NHS's future - but that is understandable, as it is something that should concern us all.
Overall i would say buy it as it is an excellent read. As it is a collectioon of seperate stories you can pick it up and read it without having to worry about remebering a time line narrative. If you like tom reynolds book, blood sweat and tea, you will love this book too.
There are some very amusing stories as well as emotional aspects. However, the 'tounge in cheek' humor and sracstic humour provides an excellent way of telling his story. If you like me, work in the NHS, then there will be a lot you can associate with.
Does harp on a bit about the worryies of the NHS's future - but that is understandable, as it is something that should concern us all.
Overall i would say buy it as it is an excellent read. As it is a collectioon of seperate stories you can pick it up and read it without having to worry about remebering a time line narrative. If you like tom reynolds book, blood sweat and tea, you will love this book too.
60 of 64 people found the following review helpful
Format:Kindle Edition
Very interesting material written by a clearly nice bloke and decent doctor who regrettably is not a gifted writer. I enjoyed this but only moderately. Another reviewer has observed that it reads like a blog I entirely agree, in fact I may have read that it started out as a blog.
I read this on my Kindle, let me say that I adore my Kindle and I have read many books on it already but I am very disappointed with the careless formatting and (absence of?) proofreading in a number of them, including this one. The writer often employs the modern punctuation convention of commas and/or dashes in lieu of commas or semi-colons, which is fine by me but is not fine when on the Kindle the spaces between the dash and the words are missing, so that at first glance you are confronted with a nonsensical compound word. There are a number of other typos and errors. I noticed similar errors in the kindle version of Bill Bryson's Notes on a Small Isalnd. This really is unforgivably sloppy as while the price of these digital books is significantly cheaper than the paper versions, the production and distribution costs are much, much cheaper than the paper equivalents. They need to stop being lazy cheapskates and invest in proper proofreading and revision of their ebook/Kindle editions. If I were an author I would be horrified to see my work mangled in this way.
I read this on my Kindle, let me say that I adore my Kindle and I have read many books on it already but I am very disappointed with the careless formatting and (absence of?) proofreading in a number of them, including this one. The writer often employs the modern punctuation convention of commas and/or dashes in lieu of commas or semi-colons, which is fine by me but is not fine when on the Kindle the spaces between the dash and the words are missing, so that at first glance you are confronted with a nonsensical compound word. There are a number of other typos and errors. I noticed similar errors in the kindle version of Bill Bryson's Notes on a Small Isalnd. This really is unforgivably sloppy as while the price of these digital books is significantly cheaper than the paper versions, the production and distribution costs are much, much cheaper than the paper equivalents. They need to stop being lazy cheapskates and invest in proper proofreading and revision of their ebook/Kindle editions. If I were an author I would be horrified to see my work mangled in this way.
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Good in parts
The anecdotes are good, some funny and some very serious. The rants about the NHS get tedious though. Read more
Published 5 hours ago by Farmer
Painfully true
I worked for the NHS some years ago now (left in 2003), but his experiences are so like what I and others had while working there. Read more
Published 13 days ago by Ingrid
I was in stitches!
Brilliant & full of funny anecdotes, really great stories & an invaluable insight into A & E & how it runs,highly recommend .
Published 14 days ago by KerrygoldGreat
Amusing but thought provoking.
This book has some very amusing stories in the life of Dr Nick Edwards working in an A & E Department which I absolutley loved. Read more
Published 17 days ago by JennyM
Yawn!
I purchased this book under the impression that it would be about the daily workings of an A&E department, I expected to read about the strange and unusual cases that the staff in... Read more
Published 28 days ago by Miss guided
just a rant
I gave up on this a bit more than half way through. I found it to be an almost pure moan about the state of the NHS from about 1997 onwards, boring.
Published 29 days ago by Mr. A. P. Styles
Fantastic
I am an A&E nurse and this book gives a brilliant insight into what it is like to work in the department. Read more
Published 1 month ago by LRayner01
Frightening and entertaining. A Must Read.
I couldn't put this book down. It's written in the blog style which works for me. Would recommend it to anyone who wants to know about the true state of British society as it's... Read more
Published 1 month ago by Max Zen
In stitches.
Got the message that Dr. Edwards was far from happy with the N.H.S. and while agreeing with most of his views, this was not what I expected when I purchased the book. Read more
Published 1 month ago by ANGIE
So True!
I actually work within the NHS and on evey page 'That's so True' was running through my mind!
We ended up in A&E with my father at the weekend and my sister who had read it... Read more
We ended up in A&E with my father at the weekend and my sister who had read it... Read more
Published 1 month ago by Nam
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