Hospital Babylon
Hospital Babylon by Imogen Edwards-Jones, published by Penguin Random House in 2012, offers an in-depth and insightful exploration of the modern medical world. This edition spans 383 pages and is presented in English. The book takes readers through various hospital departments and wards, revealing the complexities and eccentricities of medical professionals and their practices.
Readers will encounter a range of true stories and anecdotes that highlight the often absurd realities of hospital life, from doctors engaging in questionable behaviors to the financial intricacies of healthcare delivery. The narrative addresses pressing questions about the healthcare system, including the costs of private rooms and the influence of pharmaceutical companies. Hospital Babylon provides a candid look at the experiences of both patients and medical staff, prompting reflection on the nature of consent and the ethics of modern medicine.
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Hospital Babylon is an in-depth, amusing and highly insightful expose of the extraordinary world of modern medicine. It will take the reader on a journey through the various departments and wards where babies are made, thighs are reduced, noses straightened and spare kidneys are flown in from the Indian subcontinent.
We will meet doctors who sleep with nurses. Doctors who sleep with patients. Doctors who fiddle their insurance forms. Doctors who suck fat, pump up breasts, plump lips and lengthen penises. The doctor who specialises in flatulence. The doctor who shoots up before he operates. Doctor Feelgood who will give you anything and everything you need. As well as the doctor who makes a fortune doing buttock enlargements in the Caribbean. En route, we will discover what touches them, what amuses them and quite how obsessively insane you have to be to make it to the top.
Why does a private room cost over e1000 a night? Who are the people changing your bedpan? Holding your hand as you go to sleep? What do they do to you while you’re out cold? Why are drugs so expensive? How easy is it for the pharmaceutical companies to grease the good doctor’s palm? Who exactly is profiting from your illness, embarrassing affliction or brand new nose? And, of course, what happens when it all goes wrong?
Packed with true stories, anecdotes and revelations, Hospital Babylon is a riveting, entertaining and shocking look at 24 hours in the life of a hospital. Both amusing and appalling, it will make you question whether you should sign that consent form after all…
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