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[12:24] Bodies by Jed Mercurio - *** (3/5)
Date: 8/18/05 at 8:24PM
Bodies is a book with the medical profession at its core. It follows the life of a young and naive freshly graduated doctor, from his first experiences as a casualty doctor onwards. It's brutally open in its coverage of his everyday life (if you're one of the whining killjoys who pipes up "Howcome they never go to the toilet in the movies" then you'll enjoy this book). Every nuance of his life from pimple popping to murderous thoughts and actions are illustrated which makes the book startlingly candid and immersive. You live vicariously through the main character and it really is most difficult to put down - on the other hand I found the sordid and grimy details of his life oft bordering on revulsion. There are some things I just don't want to know. I'm a nice clean neat kinda guy and there's a reason I'm not a doctor.
One of the reasons I was interested in this book is that my sister recently became a paramedic (no way I could do that) and this alternate window into her world was interesting, but horribly worrying, to peer through.
You grow up as a child assuming the adults know what to do. As I get older and wiser (for want of a better word) I see that no-one really knows what to do. We're all just muddling through life doing the best we can - it's just a worrying when you think that the guy up to his elbow in your guts with a very sharp knife is just doing his best...
I'm going off on a tangent here so go read the book if you want.....it is a good book. It would have had another half a star if I had a half-asterisk key on my keyboard, instead I knocked a star off because it was too horribly real for me, bring back the rose-tinted glasses!