The Cure for Good Intentions

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Bol A compelling, outstandingly direct and genuine book about how a doctor is made The Cure for Good Intentions is about a life-changing decision. Sophie Harrison gave up her job at a prestigious literary magazine to put herself through medical school before eventually becoming a GP. She was now inside scenes familiar from television and books - long corridors, busy wards, anxious patients - but what was her part in it all? This is a book about how a doctor is made, and what a doctor does. It is an outsider's look at the inside of a profession that has never been so scrutinised, nor so misunderstood.'Switching career from editor to doctor is rare, but as Harrison says, there are a surprising number of skills that can be used in both professions . . . Yet only doctors make the life-or-death decisions that Harrison recounts grippingly and affectingly here. The medical profession has seldom been more prominent than it is now and this fine book brings its day-to-day struggles to life' Alexander Larman, Observer'Rich in both incident and anecdote: there are startling diagnoses, poignant losses, hair-raising births, close calls. Harrison also captures with tenderness and skill the intimate interactions in between dramas' Mary Morris, Times Literary Supplement 'When I was twenty-eight I trained as a doctor. Initially everyone was interested. Amazing! people said, when I told them. What made you do that? I couldn't find a short answer. Sometimes I said, "I had a revelation on a beach." It was partly true'The Cure for Good Intentions is about a life-changing decision. Sophie gave up her job as an editor at a prestigious literary magazine and put herself through medical school and hospital training before eventually becoming a GP. From peaceful office days spent writing tactful comments on manuscripts she entered a world that spoke an entirely different language. She was now inside scenes familiar from television and books - long corridors, busy wards, stern consultants, anxious patients - but what was her part in it all? Back in the community as a brand-new GP, the same question grew ever more pressing.This is a book about how a doctor is made: it asks what a doctor does, and what a doctor is. What signifies a doctor: a caring-yet-brisk bedside manner? A mode of dress? A stethoscope? A firm way with a prescription pad? What is empathy, and what does it achieve? How do we deal with pain, our own and other people's? The Cure is an outsider's look at the inside of a profession that has never been so scrutinised, or so misunderstood.

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A compelling, outstandingly direct and genuine book about how a doctor is made The Cure for Good Intentions is about a life-changing decision. Sophie Harrison gave up her job at a prestigious literary magazine to put herself through medical school before eventually becoming a GP. She was now inside scenes familiar from television and books - long corridors, busy wards, anxious patients - but what was her part in it all? This is a book about how a doctor is made, and what a doctor does. It is an outsider's look at the inside of a profession that has never been so scrutinised, nor so misunderstood.'Switching career from editor to doctor is rare, but as Harrison says, there are a surprising number of skills that can be used in both professions . . . Yet only doctors make the life-or-death decisions that Harrison recounts grippingly and affectingly here. The medical profession has seldom been more prominent than it is now and this fine book brings its day-to-day struggles to life' Alexander Larman, Observer'Rich in both incident and anecdote: there are startling diagnoses, poignant losses, hair-raising births, close calls. Harrison also captures with tenderness and skill the intimate interactions in between dramas' Mary Morris, Times Literary Supplement 'When I was twenty-eight I trained as a doctor. Initially everyone was interested. Amazing! people said, when I told them. What made you do that? I couldn't find a short answer. Sometimes I said, "I had a revelation on a beach." It was partly true'The Cure for Good Intentions is about a life-changing decision. Sophie gave up her job as an editor at a prestigious literary magazine and put herself through medical school and hospital training before eventually becoming a GP. From peaceful office days spent writing tactful comments on manuscripts she entered a world that spoke an entirely different language. She was now inside scenes familiar from television and books - long corridors, busy wards, stern consultants, anxious patients - but what was her part in it all? Back in the community as a brand-new GP, the same question grew ever more pressing.This is a book about how a doctor is made: it asks what a doctor does, and what a doctor is. What signifies a doctor: a caring-yet-brisk bedside manner? A mode of dress? A stethoscope? A firm way with a prescription pad? What is empathy, and what does it achieve? How do we deal with pain, our own and other people's? The Cure is an outsider's look at the inside of a profession that has never been so scrutinised, or so misunderstood.

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