Join me, Tom Gentry, during my first fifty days as a senior house officer in the accident and emergency department of a prestigious London teaching hospital. Witness the extraordinary, fascinating, amusing, crazy, and mortifying cases that pass through the doors.

Along with the hilarious, the pitiable, and the heart-warming, there are the tragedies that rip out my guts and psychologically scar me for life, but this is the price doctors pay for the privilege of working in this amazing, thrilling, and rewarding profession. It is 1975 - the tentacles of political correctness have yet to invade the UK healthcare sector.

Despite dated technology and ever-increasing bureaucracy, in my opinion, these are the halcyon days of the NHS. Share intimate details of my private life and meet Sam, a girl I dated during our final year at medical school.

We rekindle our relationship, which quickly develops into a passionate love affair, only to be thwarted by a family tragedy that causes her to resign and return home. Despite this emotional upheaval and the long and stressful working hours in the A&E department, I am also studying for the primary FRCS examination, which looms in five months and must pass to move up the surgical ladder.

This memoir is based on actual events and is the first in a series of gripping revelations, which you can expect as my NHS career progresses. Read it and discover a taste of real behind-the-scenes hospital life! You deserve to know what goes on.

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