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In Rude Health: The Funniest and Most Explicit Stories from the NHS
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From the man with a device lodged far inside his body whose batteries refuse to run out to a woman with a plunger super-glued to her vagina, In Rude Health recounts real life tales from the coal face of the NHS. From doctors, nurses, physiotherapists, psychiatrists and dentists come a range of eye-popping, side-splitting acts of misadventure that have had the medical profession weeping into their face masks as they attended to members of the great British public in their hour of need. In Rude Health is a riotous account of the weird, the warped and the whacky ways we end up in the hands of the medical profession.
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Additional information
| Language | English |
|---|---|
| File size | 789 KB |
| Text-to-Speech | Enabled |
| Screen Reader | Supported |
| Enhanced typesetting | Enabled |
| X-Ray | Not Enabled |
| Word Wise | Enabled |
| Sticky notes | On Kindle Scribe |
| Print length | 128 pages |
by Dave
A few laugh out loud moments, but as other reviewers have mentioned, the stories mostly centre around a cast of assorted idiots stuffing foreign objects into various orifices. At least one story appeared to be a re-hash of a ‘friend of a friend’ story (the petrol incident). With one page per story, I read this entire volume in 65 minutes – and this included time to dry my eyes after reading a couple of the funniest! An amusing, but very short read, (I expected more), and because of the short content, I have only given this 3 stars
by S.Cameron
Very funny, and the short items make it ideal to read while sitting in the doctor’s waiting room!
by Martin C Pegg
A real giggle from start to finish. Gotta love humans and what predicaments they get themselves into. Great book for a quick pick up and chuckle.
by Richard Elliott
Clearly, according to other reviewers I am young at heart as I found a collection of stories about stupid people getting a variety of objects stuck in a range of bodily orifices rather amusing. As is the case with books of this type some of the stories will make you laugh a lot whilst some will barely raise a smile. I found some of the stories to be very short and overall the book took less than an hour to read. Anyone who works in a job dealing with members of the public will not find the fact that many idiotic people walk among us to be much of a revelation. It gave me quite a few laughs so I would happily recommend it to anyone.
by Peter
This is basically a collection of short and bizarre anecdotes from the frontline of healthcare in the UK. Most of it isn’t particularly graphic as such, but it doesn’t pull many punches in describing some of the painful or unpleasant details.
If you have a suitably morbid and/or coarse sense of humour, then there are plenty of laughs to be had along the way.
It really isn’t a long book though. You could probably get through it in an hour or two.
by Rallyman
If you enjoy laughing at other people’s misfortune – or in most of these cases, stupidity – then this is a nice little pot-boiler to while away a bus journey.
It won’t last longer than a couple of trips though as it isn’t the longest book in the world but, amid the eye-watering tales of the various objects that have been found in the ‘downstairs’ parts of the human body when they have no right to be there you will almost certainly find a few that will make you laugh out loud and draw questioning looks from your fellow passengers. Maybe best not to tell them what had tickled your fancy though – just in case they’re on their own way to A&E…
by Amazon Customer
This book is a collection of stories ‘supposedly’ from different health professionals around the UK. I say supposedly because it is a very short book for such a collection and the writing style is the same in every story – presumably because each story has been rewritten by the author. Some bits are laugh out loud funny, but I was left feeling sceptical about it’s authenticity – some of the language seemed very unlikely to me.
by Sandra Richardson
So, approaching reading this book I was in a bit of a reading block. I just couldn’t decide what to read. Then when I did try to read a book or two I ended up not being able to get into them. I came to the conclusion that I needed to read something different to my usual genres to snap me out of the reading block. So I went on Amazon.co.uk and looked under humour and found this book.
This book contains the weird and wonderful predicaments that people get themselves into and end up having to ask for medical help to get themselves out of. I would imagine there were lots of red faces when some of these incidents happened.
I decided to share just one of the stories in the book that isn’t an 18+ rated!
It is titled as “The Eyes Have It” – A drunken male staggers into a hospital in Manchester, complaining that no matter how he tried he could not get his contact lenses out. Apparently, the contact lenses would come half the way out but then somehow snap back in! A nurse attempted to remove the contact lenses and failed so the Dr was called in, who examined the man’s eyes and found out the man did not have any contact lenses in!!
My immediate thoughts upon finishing reading the book was that it is a great selection of short stories put together in a book that ended up being a funny fast paced read. I would say the book is definitely 18+ due to certain stories that are involving “private parts” both Male & female.
To sum up I would say this is a great book to read on a short journey or during break-time at work.