ISBN10: 1906308128, ISBN13: 9781906308124, [publisher: UK. MONDAY BOOKS] Hardcover UK. Monday Books. 2009. Hard Cover. Black cloth boards with gilt titles. Dust wrapper is fine and unclipped. Book is pristine and fine. Signed by the author with dedication to the title page dated 2010. Anthony Malcolm Daniels, also known by the pen name Theodore Dalrymple, is an English cultural critic, prison physician and psychiatrist. He worked in a number of Sub-Saharan African countries as well as in the East End of London. A collection of short, sharp pieces compiled from Dalrymple's regular and much-loved 'Second Opinion' and 'If Symptoms Persist' columns in The Spectator magazine. Drug addicts and desperate drunks, battered wives and suicidal burglars, elderly Alzheimer's sufferers and teenage stabbing victims all pass through Theodore Dalrymple's surgery - and he uses the experience of treating them to examine life for those unfortunate enough to live at the bottom end of society. He writes with a combination of dry humour, compassion and, occasionally, anger - mostly at the inhuman bureaucracy of the system, which works against the doctors and nurses as they try to help their patients.
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