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  • Being a Surgeon and Being a Surgeon’s Wife
    Jane Sykes / Peter Sykes
    An easy to read, honest and personal account of the life of a surgeon and the effect that it has on his wife and family. The reader is taken behind the scenes as fascinating patient stories are used to illustrate what the job entails and the pressures and emotions that result; the child with life-threatening injuries or the patient needing end of life care. Incidents of medical...
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    19,79 €

  • Laughter is the Best Medicine
    Peter Sykes
    It is said that a surgeon must have ’the eyes of a hawk, the heart of a lion, and the hands of a lady,’ but have you ever wondered how a surgeon learns to operate, how he ’cuts his teeth’ progressing from naive newly-qualified doctor to competent surgeon?In this collection of medical tales, the training of one slightly naive young trainee is viewed through the experiences of th...
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    17,06 €

  • All in a Doctor’s Day
    Peter Sykes
    Peter Sykes lifts the lid on the good, the bad and the ugly in the NHS, based on real-life situations from his 40 years experience at the sharp end of medical practice.Some of these stories will make you laugh, a few will make you cry and others have a surprising twist in the tail.They feature patients, doctors and nurses, blood, sweat and toil, life and death, heartache and jo...
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    16,32 €

  • Invisible Scars
    Peter Sykes
    Whilst Paul and Kate work alongside each other as doctor and nurse on the surgical ward, strains in their relationship emerge. And when Kate's baby dies and Paul's inexperience costs lives, doubt and despair hang in the air and their marriage appears to be doomed.However, in a dramatic turn of events, Paul saves the life of a critically ill patient and Kate is finally a...
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    16,21 €

  • Behind the Screens at the City General Hospital
    Peter Sykes
    What really goes on ’behind the screens’ of a busy hospital ward?The heroes of the novel are Paul Lambert and his girl friend Kate Meredith.Paul, a quiet and introspective young doctor, tells the real-life tales of some of his patients, at a time forty years ago when care and compassion ruled supreme. Kate is a nurse who learns more about patient care when she is admitted as a...
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    17,45 €

  • The First Cut
    Peter Sykes
    Paul Lambert, a quiet introspective young man, is thrown, bewildered and unprepared, into the daunting world of a busy surgical unit.Through his eyes numerous ʻpatient episodesʼ are described - many amusing, some serious, others poignant but all very ʻhumanʼ. After early misadventures, both surgical and romantic, he gains confidence and experience and becomes a key member of th...
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    18,62 €