The Human Kind by Peter Dorward is about the experience of being a doctor and dealings with patients.

A really good insight to the dilemmas faced by a G.P. These are the kind of stories you couldn't even imagine without a medical background.

Was caught off guard by how much I liked this memoir and how honest, as well as frank, Dorward seemed. Over his career, Dorward dealt with patients from all walks of life, and their cases are memorable in a variety of different ways. I found some of the accounts involving mental health to be very moving at times.

This was an ARC from Netgalley and Bloomsbury in exchange for an honest review. With thanks.

Fascinating. I think ultimately I was looking for more humour and humanity, but still a really interesting look at what it means to be a doctor and a patient.

I have read a few of these memoirs written by doctors, this one is very good as it comes from a different angle, discussing how much use medicines are for certain illnesses and how doctors can help us in other ways. This makes the book more of a study in humans than how medicines can cure us.
I enjoyed the fact that the book is set in Scotland and the stories of the doctors patients.

This was an interesting read on a Dr and the various people he treated. From end of life care to mental health and various other patients, it was a fascinating read on how a Dr thinks as well as the patient which we don't always understand so I enjoyed it.

There's been a rash (pardon the pun) of books about the experiences of doctors and nurses in the past few months and I appear to have read most of them. This was by far the most disappointing sadly - I felt that Dorward came across very much as a Dr from the past rather than the new compassionate breed who I have been reading about (and also during my own recent serious health problems treated by). There were some interesting ideas covered but I'd rather have read more about them than Dorward's appointments and attitude.