The Junior Doctor is back He's into his 2nd year of medicine, but this time Max is out of the wards & onto the streets, working for the Phoenix Outreach Project. Fuelled by tea & enthusiasm, he attempts to locate & treat a wide & colourful range of patients that somehow his first year on the wards didn't prepare him for.

The junior doctor . . . back on the wards

After a year on the streets treating outreach patients, Max Pemberton is back in the relative comfort of hospital. This time running between elderly care and the dementia clinic to A&E and outpatients. No longer inexperienced (Max and his doctor friends can now tell when someone is actually dead), they are on the front line of patient care for better or worse.

In the midst of an NHS still under threat (some things never change) there are committed and caring doctors, big issues, hope, frustration, huge societal changes affecting the entire...

In the vein of the best 'blog books' - the real life story of a hapless junior doctor, based on his columns written anonymously for the Telegraph