From Amazon -
"Inside every hospital exists a world no outsider has been allowed to see, not even the idealistic young man who has come to start a career in medicine. What awaits him is a life of institutionalised cynicism, pitch-black humour and visceral sex, and soon it changes him more terribly than he could ever have feared. Written by a former doctor, Bodies is a novel of almost unbearable power and intensity. It is also a moving portrait of the loss of innocence, the healing power of sexual love, and of a young man's quest for redemption in a world that's lost its sense of right and wrong."

This was a very bleak read, unputdownable though, with flashes of black humour. In one way it is very unbalanced, there is no mention of the hundreds of patients he treated who must have got better and gone home, but for anyone who has worked within the NHS there is so much that is recognisable it's scary.

On its way to Torchgirl in Australia.

received from raeliz64, so quick, thankyou!

I've read this book over and over, loved it. Very dark but so real (I've worked in the NHS too). But not just a hospital story but also a young man growing up, I wish I could write...so much.