A candid medical memoir on feedback, training, low pay, night shifts, burnout, responsibility and the reality behind emergency medicine.
Candy & Blood
A raw pre-hospital medicine account of a capsized migrant boat, mass-casualty response and the adrenaline of emergency medicine.
Divergence
An emergency trauma case forces me to step back into the world I left behind and accept, finally, the career I chose instead.
FOREWORD
A journey through ambition, burnout, and rediscovery as a doctor steps back into medicine to rebuild identity, purpose, and a fuller life.
AFTERWORD
I reflect on how medicine changed me, teaching me to care deeply for patients while embracing a life beyond the hospital.
Crossroads
I fail MRCS Part B, choose a gap year and step away from medicine to travel the world before returning stronger.
Toxic
I confront harassment, incompetence and institutional silence inside the most toxic hospital environment I had ever experienced.
Holiday Spirit
I confront grief, loneliness and a terminal diagnosis while working through another bleak Christmas in hospital.
Orthopaedic Surgery – Journal Entries
Journal entries from my rotation in orthopaedic surgery.
Trial By Fire
I survive my first on-call shift, facing bloods, cannulas, death and uncertainty while learning when to act and ask for help.