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A brilliantly funny but deadly serious account of NHS psychiatry in crisisOn his first day as a trainee psychiatrist, Dr Benji Waterhouse –conflict averse, bookish, balding – receives a crash course in martial arts. A brawny ex-policeman with tumes...
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An unexpected twist on the grief memoir sees the Guardian writer chart the five stages of male-pattern baldnessIt takes Stuart Heritage almost 30 pages to summon the courage to write about his comb-over days. There are hints of it on the way as he de...
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Memoir, cultural history and bleak humour characterise this brilliant personal exploration of health anxietyCaroline Crampton was 17 and midway through her A-levels when she& was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma, a rare form of blood cancer. When th...
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A riveting examination of the value we place on human life – from healthcare to hitmenAt the start of May 2020, the New& York governor Andrew Cuomo was& under pressure to relax Covid restrictions. “The faster we reopen, the& lower the economic cost,...