Sawbones

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When we meet him his biggest concern is not losing the girl he is giving his attention to now that he has come of age, and being taken seriously in the blooming surgeon community given the colouring of his skin. But when a corpse turns up on his master’s anatomizing table with a couple too many unexplained quirks, ones that might get undesired attention and might imply that the poor soul may actually be missed and claimed, Ezra raises his concerns with his master. Add to the mix a red headed girl with a fiery and willful personality who seeks revenge for the death of her father which she claims is murder, and you have yourself a mystery. But the mystery goes beyond that. There are more ingredients to this recipe, and the intrigues run deeper than the scalpel has initially cut and further than the streets of London. But old age is slowing Mother Hopkins down, and she wants to carry out one last con, a con to outdo all the cons that have gone before. And so the gang set about bringing ruin upon Captain Walker, a proud and cruel slave captain, who deserves to be taught a lesson or two . . . Sophie’s new home is a modern blue bungalow in a tiny village in Wales. It’s a long way from London and her friends, and a long way from Dad. It might be all right, she thinks, for ‘what I did in the holidays’, but not for living in forever. It gets worse when Sophie starts hearing the breathing at night. Then the ghost appears – dressed in rags and smelling awful but insisting that she is someone special. The last thing Sophie needs right now is to be haunted. How does one translate a comedic in tone, factual medical history podcast to a book? The result was not what I expected, yet much much better!

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Catherine Johnson is a British author and screenwriter. She has written several young adult novels and co-wrote the screenplay for the 2004 drama film Bullet Boy. Sawbones’s narration was as clean cut and objective as the scalpel and the mind of he that wields them.’ Big Book Little Book www.bigbooklittlebook.com/2014/01/sawbones/ Johnson’s heroine has a brave and endearing voice….I loved the visual detail.’– Adele Geras Times Educational Supplement This is a tough review to write. I love the podcast and I think that this book hits a lot of the same notes which made for an entertaining and informative read. The information covered was well researched and presented in an approachable and interesting way. I think it would be a good introductory taste to medical history rather than a comprehensive tome, and adds some interesting color to the world of medicine.This is a fantastic adaptation of the podcast - it maintains the exact tone and humour that is so iconic to all the McElroy media, and I hope that having it available as a book now will introduce many more people to Sawbones who were perhaps not into the podcast format. It should be noted, for those who have listened to the podcast, that the book is mostly retellings of topics that have been discussed on the podcast. This is by no means a bad thing, and of course it's not at all a transcript of the show, but I wouldn't want people to go in expecting entirely new content. However, if like me you've been listening to the podcast for a while then it may be have been some time since you heard about some of these stories and will enjoy this refresher. Medical science is flourishing, and in London the illegal trade in corpses has never been more… alive.’ How will our actual healing methods be evaluated in the retrospective? These non-individualized therapies based on pharmacological hammers and sometimes unsafe treatments. That fallible people cut into other people with sharpened steel. The interdependence of politics and the pharmaceutical industry. And how little we knew about the body and its functional mechanisms. To seek humility in the mistakes of the past would be good to prevent that such erroneous paths are not gone longer than necessary.

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Personally I was also not impressed by the illustrations. They feel somewhat stiff at times and the portraits don't always resemble Justin and Sydnee. Additionally I really missed text explanations to go with the images included in the chapters. At times a portrait would be printed, but it wasn't clear who the portrait was of, as the text described several people. Loveday Finch is the daughter of a magician, who is dead. Loveday believes her father was murdered, and is out for revenge. Meanwhile, magician’s daughter, Loveday Finch, thinks her father was murdered and enlists Ezra’s help to find out why. The plot takes us through the streets of 18th-century London to vastly differing settings from the operating theatre at St Bartholomew’s, the damp vaults of Newgate Prison, to the inner corridors of the Ottoman Embassy. However, the wealth of detail never slows what is a tightly woven plot. Having read The Name of the Star by Maureen Johnson and more recently Unrest by Michelle Harrison, two books that both took me out of my comfort zone I decided to follow my gut, take a leap of faith and go for it. Turns out I should do that more often!

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Thanks sa friend kong si Max (Hello MAX! :D) sa pagshare nya ng infos and experience nya sa ganitong practice. Grabacious mga medical people, patigasan talaga ng sikmura dito no? If these were any other content creators besides the McElroys, there is no way this book would have such a high rating on Goodreads. I understand that folks are enthusiastic to support them - I am too - but such a high rating is extremely dishonest because the construction and editing of the book is so unforgivably flawed. I can't believe someone actually made the decision to ship out the books in this state. It feels like they're taking advantage of the fans' willingness to forgive the creators, and that is bad business. The editing in this book is egregious. There are maybe a dozen obvious typos and errors, and that’s in a revised edition that was released after the initial was widely criticized for being even messier. The 2020 edition also contains an opening chapter containing plague history, to relate to Covid-19, but the tone is so smug that even if you agree with every point they are making, you resent it. The latter half, which presumably had more time with an editor, fares better, but not by much. In the retrospective, many things are unbelievable and it is difficult to gauge the suffering of the patients, or rather victims. But how did these questionable approaches devoid of any good clinical practice and scientific method develop? What were the causes of so many wrong turns?