On Call, 9781775542377
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Kiwi surgeon’s gripping memoir: life, death, and bravery in scrubs.
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On Call

stories from my life as a surgeon, a daughter and a mother

$31.99

  • Paperback

    304 pages

  • Release Date

    5 March 2024

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Summary

On Call: A Surgeon’s Heart in the Chaos of Life and Death

Stories of life, death and bravery by a Kiwi female general surgeon

‘Ruthlessly honest and viscerally beautiful. The book I wish I had read as a medical student.’ Emma Espiner

The world of surgery is strange, messy and intense. From a man presenting with fishhooks in his stomach to being punched in the face by a patient, it’s all in a mad day’s work for a female general surgeo…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781775542377
ISBN-10:1775542378
Author:Ineke Meredith
Publisher:HarperCollins Publishers (New Zealand)
Imprint:HarperCollins Publishers
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:304
Release Date:5 March 2024
Weight:379g
Dimensions:234mm x 153mm x 24mm
About The Author

Ineke Meredith

Ineke Meredith was born in New Zealand to parents of mixed-Samoan heritage. She spent part of her childhood in Samoa but moved to New Zealand to study medicine. She is a general surgeon with a subspecialty interest in breast cancer and breast reconstruction who has published research articles in international peer-reviewed medical journals on breast cancer and reconstruction, cancer rates among Pacific peoples in New Zealand, and has participated in international collaboratives on cancer rates in diaspora. She is the founder and director of Fur Love, a canine skincare company, and lives and works between New Zealand and Paris.

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