When British Arab and ‘Southerner’, Dr Ahmed Handy, suddenly found himself working as a junior doctor in the Midlands, a part of the country with which he was wholly unfamiliar… and which was equally unfamiliar with people like him, he was faced with something of a culture shock.

But that was only the beginning of his bizarre junior doctor experience.

Through this humorous and heartfelt memoir, Dr Handy imparts his extensive collection of bonkers stories about the various quirky doctors and nurses he worked alongside, ranging from the mildly eccentric to the overtly sociopathic. From a Gynaecologist so petty he copyrighted his own consent forms, to an anally retentive Orthopaedic surgeon with practices so bewildering that the accompanying doctor simply wrote a question mark in the patient’s notes, Quacks is a memoir full of characters and experiences so outrageous they will make you gasp in shock and laugh out loud in equal measure.

My Thoughts:

I love a book when it is written by a Dr, so you get the full experience of what it is like to be a Dr and get the behind the scenes too. Dr Ahmed Handy is very kind to relay his experiences as a Dr in the Midlands, he faces some very peculiar experiences from both patient and Dr. This is more about the behind the scenes of the Dr and Nurses that Dr Ahmed Handy has met along the way of his career, but some of the things he experiences was eye opening. There are also some funny parts to this story too, You would not believe some of the things you will read in this book they are just jaw dropping stuff. It would be good if Dr Ahmed Handy would write his next book about the different patients he has seen. It was a really interesting and gripping hands on experience for one Dr. A thoroughly enjoyable read.

I received an ARC copy of this book for an honest review.

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