Does It Hurt When I Press Here Two?: An A&E Doctor’s treatment for the NHS - Softcover

Black, Willy M

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798336456738

Publisher: Independently published, 2024

Synopsis

What if the biggest threat to the NHS isn't a lack of funding, but the system itself?

Most people think they understand what's wrong with modern healthcare. Long waiting times. Staff shortages. Lack of beds.

The reality is far more complicated.

In Does It Hurt When I Press Here Two?, A&E doctor Willy M Black returns to expose the contradictions, bureaucracy, political interference and institutional absurdities that frontline staff face every day.

Drawing on years of experience inside Emergency Departments, he examines how good intentions often produce disastrous outcomes, why common-sense solutions are ignored, and how the people trying hardest to help patients are frequently trapped by the very systems designed to support them.

Part memoir, part social commentary and part dark satire, this book takes readers behind the headlines and into the uncomfortable realities of modern healthcare.

Some chapters will make you laugh. Some will make you angry. Many will leave you wondering how any of it makes sense.

This is not a partisan attack. It is an honest examination of what happens when bureaucracy, ideology, politics and reality collide on the hospital floor. Blunt. Thought-provoking. Often funny.

A must-read for healthcare workers, NHS patients and anyone interested in how modern institutions really function.

Edition details

• Publisher: Independently published
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 13: 9798336456738
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 134