The Language of Kindness, Trust Me Im A Junior Doctor, Where Does It Hurt 3 Books Collection Set

This three-book collection brings together three accounts of working in medicine, from nursing to a junior doctor’s early years in the NHS. The Language of Kindness follows Christie through moments of intense care, including nursing a premature baby through the night, supporting a patient during a heart-lung transplant, and washing the hair of a child fatally injured in a fire before the family arrives.

Max Pemberton’s Trust Me Im a Junior Doctor begins on the evening before he starts work as a doctor and traces his first year, moving from youthful idealism to frank bewilderment as he discovers how much time is spent on forms and unanswered practicalities. In Where Does it Hurt?, he enters his second year and works with the Phoenix Outreach Project, leaving the wards for the streets to find and treat a wide range of patients.

Included titles

• The Language of Kindness
• Trust Me Im a Junior Doctor
• Where Does it Hurt?

Key details

• Three-book collection set
• Includes two titles by Max Pemberton
• Includes one title featuring Christie’s nursing experiences
• Covers hospital care, junior doctor life and outreach work

Synopses

The Language of Kindness

Christie is observed through demanding, intimate moments of nursing care. The description includes a premature baby who makes it through the night, a patient undergoing an agonising heart-lung transplant, and a child fatally injured in a fire, as Christie washes the child’s hair to remove the smell of smoke before the grieving family arrives.

Trust Me Im a Junior Doctor

Beginning on the evening before he starts work, Max Pemberton’s first year in the NHS is described as touching and funny. As his idealism gives way to bewilderment, he realises his role involves far more paperwork and practical uncertainties than he expected, including working out things no one has explained.

Where Does it Hurt?

In his second year of medicine, Max moves from the wards to the streets with the Phoenix Outreach Project. Fuelled by tea and more enthusiasm than experience, he attempts to locate and treat patients his first year did not prepare him for, including an 80-year-old drugs mule, “God” in a Tesco car park, and middle-class mothers addicted to appearances and pain killers.