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Essential reading for junior doctors, medical students, and their loved ones, ‘Letters to a Young Doctor’ is a thoughtful, wise, and heartfelt introduction from a consultant surgeon at the top of his career.
About the author
Doctor Hilali Noordeen is a Consultant Orthopaedic and Spinal Surgeon working at The Harley Street Hospital in London.
With almost four decades’ experience in his field, he has authored many articles in peer-reviewed medical journals, and according to Tatler’s Good Doctors Guide, ‘The spine holds no secrets for Noordeen.’
‘Letters to a Young Doctor’ is Noordeen’s first book. Inspired by a conversation with his son, who was himself considering a career in medicine, it’s part manual, part manifesto, part memoir.
Presenting an unvarnished depiction of medicine as it is today, the lasting impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, and the many other challenges the profession faces, this is a timely, passionate, and deeply personal guide to medical education and practice.
Praise for ‘Letters to a Young Doctor’
At a time when, more than ever, we are focussed on the NHS, this is a reminder of the compassionate care that needs to be at its heart. Part polemic, part guide to a medical career, and part memoir, Letters to a Young Doctor is also very funny and written with passion, elan and fluency.Rachel Kelly, writer, mental health advocate and author of Sunday Times bestseller Black Rainbow: How Words Can Heal: My Journey Through Depression
A brilliant and impassioned cry from the heart at the current state of medical education and practice, from the top of the profession. That it is also spiritual, wise and funny makes this book something special.Jesse Norman MP, Financial Secretary to the Treasury, author of The Big Society
A delightful witty account of the life of a successful surgeon, whose own warmth and empathy has clearly defined his medical practice. His plea to revisit reforms in our health service – which rely on command and control and which are destroying the values of care and compassion – is timely and powerful. This is both a lively guide to young doctors but it is also a serious message to our society about the ways in which we are seeing the de-professionalising of great professions in pursuit of distorted notions of efficiency.c, part guide to a medical career, and part memoir, Letters to a Young Doctor is also very funny and written with passion, elan and fluency.Baroness Helena Kennedy QC