{"title":"Chris Ward","description":"\u003cp\u003eChris Ward offers compelling explorations into the personal journeys behind professional lives, delving deeply into the challenges and triumphs that shape individual experience. Readers are invited to reflect on the human stories woven through careers and life changes, presented with clarity and empathy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSpecialising in biography and memoir, Ward's works illuminate the complexities of ambition, resilience, and identity. Each book provides thoughtful insight into the intersections of personal history and broader cultural contexts, appealing to those who appreciate intimate, well-crafted narratives.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"becoming-a-doctor-by-chris-ward-9781839997051","title":"Becoming a Doctor","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThis book is a very personal account of a medical education that began in 1966. It describes one person's experience of being gradually transformed from a nervous student into a professorial physician.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA doctor's education looks at first sight like a straightforward technical training, but remembering it as a personal experience creates a new and disturbing picture, a blend of joys, absurdities and frustrations. The author observes his younger self's efforts to communicate and to regulate feelings in the prescribed way, and begins to see that to become a doctor is to be at the mercy of almost irresistible pressures. He picks up habits by mimicking the teachers, with sometimes disastrous results.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCommunication, and even empathy, are made to seem like performances in which the doctor's self need play no part. Any other way of being a doctor is unimaginable. Hospital medicine figures in the book as a universe that is loveable and yet tragically unable to engage with its patients' ordinary lives. Doctors in the 1960s, as now, were focused on disease and had little to say about illness and suffering, let alone death. They were, and still are, curiously silent about healing, recovery and rehabilitation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBecoming a Doctor\u003c\/em\u003e provides a unique insight into the evolution of a medical professional, with its personal recounting vividly illuminating the journey within this demanding field.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"NewSouth Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47933891248364,"sku":"9781839997051","price":242.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781839997051-becoming-a-doctor.jpg?v=1783881763"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.live\/collections\/chris-ward.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}