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Every patient has a story to tell, if only you make enough time to listen. In a long career as a doctor in the NHS, award winning author Dr Barry Monk has heard some remarkable tales. There has been everything from unexploded bombs and human guinea pigs to the bizarre case of the man who turned blue. If you are a doctor, this book will remind you just why medicine is so addictive as a career. If you have ever been a patient, the stories will...

The NHS was founded as a brave experiment in healthcare, and for over seventy years has been a remarkable success.Inevitably, sometimes things go wrong, and LIFELINE delves into stories of fake doctors, forged wills and disappearing postmortems. It analyses how patient safety can be neglected, and describes how malicious managers, inept regulators and naïve politicians sometimes find it easier to hide the truth or blame innocent scapegoats.Thi...