Hospital Babylon

By Imogen Edwards-Jones

Book Overview

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 1000 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0552162841
• ISBN13: 9780552162845
• Release Date: July 2012
• Publisher: Corgi
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 2.31 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.8" x 0.9" x 5.0"