Where Does it Hurt?
What the Junior Doctor did next

. This review contains spoilers Written by Dr Max Pemberton, this is an account of a year spent working as a doctor doing outreach work in the city. He was based in a medical centre, but also did a lot of work on the streets, looking after drug addicts, homeless people and people with mental health pr......more

This was an interesting insight into what it's like working in a drug dependency unit. I wasn't really aware of things like the phoenix project before, so this book was very interesting and I learnt a lot. This book was very funny, but still was respectful to the individuals he was discussing. All the......more

This book was a really good insight into working in psychiatry and with patients who have a drug addiction, and had the same addictive combination of humor and medicine. However, the dramatization of events through the narrative, whilst important for storytelling, sometimes gave a caricatured view o......more

Max Pemberton is starting his second year as a junior doctor out on the streets rather than in the wards.  Spoilers ahead. There's no better way to procrastinate on a pile of cardiology lectures than reading a medical memoir. Often, the doctor-author will throw in medical jargon and explain it in a ki......more

4.75 stars - beautifully written and enjoyed much more than the first in the series. The patients that the author helped had heartbreaking stories and the author showed the reality of drugs and lack of support that there can be. He acknowledges its not just one issue but many that these patients nee......more