The Registrar

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Publisher Place: Australia
Publisher Year: 2022
Edition: First Edition

Description: 357 pages. Book is in Very good condition throughout.

Publishers Description: Sometimes in hospital people die - but not all of them should. A moving, addictive debut novel for readers of Going Under and Emotional Female.Emma, youll be totally fine ... If theres ever a doctor whos going to thrive in surgical training, Im sure its you.Dedicated and ambitious, Emma Swann is about to start a gruelling year as a surgical registrar at the prestigious Mount teaching hospital. Shes excited to join her adored older brother Andy in pursuing the same career as their father, an eminent surgeon who made his name at The Mount. But the pressure of living up to his distinguished reputation is nothing compared to the escalating stress Emma experiences as a registrar. Its an arduous, unremitting slog of twenty-hour days, punishing schedules, life and death decisions - and very little assistance, instruction or support from her superiors, who waste no time pointing out just how superior they are. Amidst a background culture of humiliation and bullying, being a woman just makes things worse: misogyny is rife and Emma is subjected to other, more insidious, kinds of male attention.As Emma battles overwork, exhaustion and increasing disillusion, she has less and less ability and time to care for her patients welfare, and that of herself and those she loves. Is it possible for her to be the doctor, wife, sister and friend she aspires to be in such a broken hospital system Can she salvage her own life while shes trying to save others And how can she and her colleagues endure such impossible conditions without making fatal mistakesWith the frenetic pace of a psychological thriller, The Registrar offers a rare insight into the world of a surgeon-in-the-making from one who has survived it. Told with compassion, skill and emotional heart, this gripping and moving novel goes behind the headlines to reveal the human experience of being both a doctor and patient in a medical system at breaking point.

ISBN: 9781761066511