
Goldblatt's Descent
Michael Honig(Author)
Atlantic Books (Publisher)
Published on 3. July 2014
Book
Paperback/Softback
480 pages
978-0-85789-703-9 (ISBN)
Description
Angry, satirical, hilarious and eventually heartbreaking, Goldblatt's Descent tells the story of a young, talented hospital doctor, an idealist in a very imperfect world.
A biting, brilliant, black tragicomedy of doctors, patients, lost hopes and last chances.
Dr Malcolm Goldblatt has one last chance in the NHS. As the new but temporary senior registrar of a London hospital, he needs to prove to himself, and the medical establishment, that he can toe the corporate line. But this new hospital is all rather depressingly familiar - from Dr Madic's ferocious aversion to work, Dr Burton's knife-in-the-back ambition, right up to the pathologically insecure yet monstrously vain Professor Small, it is an environment of short tempers, back-biting and office politics - a place in which caring for patients seems secondary to caring for professional reputations. As Goldblatt attempts to hold on to his job in the medical chaos of Floor Five he finds himself sinking dangerously towards a point of no return, where it feels as though self-abnegation is killing him and self-destruction seems like the only remedy...
A biting, brilliant, black tragicomedy of doctors, patients, lost hopes and last chances.
Dr Malcolm Goldblatt has one last chance in the NHS. As the new but temporary senior registrar of a London hospital, he needs to prove to himself, and the medical establishment, that he can toe the corporate line. But this new hospital is all rather depressingly familiar - from Dr Madic's ferocious aversion to work, Dr Burton's knife-in-the-back ambition, right up to the pathologically insecure yet monstrously vain Professor Small, it is an environment of short tempers, back-biting and office politics - a place in which caring for patients seems secondary to caring for professional reputations. As Goldblatt attempts to hold on to his job in the medical chaos of Floor Five he finds himself sinking dangerously towards a point of no return, where it feels as though self-abnegation is killing him and self-destruction seems like the only remedy...
Reviews / Votes
A rollicking comic take on the NHS and a tragicomic meditation on human futility. One of the funniest - and bleakest - books I've read this year. -- Judith FlandersMore details
Edition
Main
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 198 mm
Width: 130 mm
Thickness: 32 mm
Weight
323 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-85789-703-9 (9780857897039)
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Michael Honig trained in medicine and worked at a number of London's teaching hospitals. He lives in London with his wife and son.