Free Second Opinion: A Doctors Dispatches From The British Inner City Depicted By Theodore Dalrymple Viewable As Text
I always find theodore dalrymple's books highly amusing, He's very controversial and only those with an open mind should read his books, otherwise one could possibly feel insulted.
I love the way he just writes what he thinks, the sarcasm and actually reading a book by someone who is truthful.
A very good book. This book was a good read but it became monotonous I felt it was a bit too long and was sort of relieved to finally reach the end of it.
enjoyed the prose and wit the author uses, Though it tends to get very cynical, and he paints a rather bleak picture of humanity, Its worth a read no doubt, and I felt somewhat fond of his old school british charm, This is a collection of what must be Dalrymple's shortest essays, As always, he delights and provides insight like no other living author I know of, That man can say so much with so little, Read the sample, and although I loved the authors wit, it got more and more cynical and bordering on rascism.
Theodore Dalrymple is ingenious. What a diamond in the rough, I love his prose, and his observations and his sharp, critical eye, I'll probably read more of his stuff, Drug addicts and desperate drunks, battered wives and suicidal burglars, elderly Alzheimer's sufferers and teenage stabbing victims, They all pass through Theodore Dalrymple's surgery, and he uses the experience of treating them to examine life for those unfortunate enough to live at the bottom end of society.
He writes with a combination of dry humour, compassion and, occasionally, anger mostly at the inhuman bureaucracy of the system, which works against the doctors and nurses as they try to help their patients.
The erstwhile bf didn't bother even texting me Happy New Year so that's obviously that, I have been so down I thought that psychiatrist Theodore Dalrymple's Luddite and pessimistic musings on the prisoners and patients, often their victims in the very working class area he was an NHS doctor in, might cheer me up.
He's just so grumpy, snarky, sarcastic and tongue in cheek, You know he writes with a sparkle in his eye as he uses his fountain pen, I don't think he's come as far as computers considering what he has to say about cell phones.
And the thing which is currently raising my ire easily raised, admittedly is the mobile telephone, A pox or should I say a brain tumour upon all those who carry this frightful instrument,He's very cheery with the prisoners who are mostly small time criminals in and out of prison, and who mostly treat their women and children very badly, beating up one and not supporting the other, and many of them are on drugs, some out of boredom.
Alas, as any gimcrack psychiatrist will tell you, there is in all hatred a liberal dose of selfcontempt, and so it is with my abhorrence of the mobile telephone, for I possess one myself, even though I know it makes me look a little like a Jamaican drugdealer.
At least my conversations on it are sensible and important, however, I have to keep myself contactable at all times wherever I may be, just in case one of the newspapers wants me to write a ringing denunciation of one or other of the many manifestations of modern British degradation and depravity.
It is possible, after all, to make money out of depravity without being depraved oneself,
The women of these men are uniformly stupid, Their men kick their bellies to cause abortions, say they aren't really violent to them, "just a smack on the face, nothing she had to go to hospital for," and about choking, "I know when to stop".
The women are frightened to leave them because of being tracked down and there being further violence, but also, most say they are in love with them, and 'he's not like that all the time.
Only when he drinks. '
It's a fairly entertaining book, as most of sitelinkTheodore Dalrymple's are, It isn't for the reader who gets outraged easily, or thinks cancelling people with unpleasant views is a good thing, or doesn't get that humour sometimes is not politically correct.
Despite all this, it is amusing and he is an excellent writer with points to make:
Each man kills the thing he loves, but each woman is killed by the thing she loves.This is Dalrymple's erudite and humored grumbles about bureaucracies specially concerning the NHS, where he used to be a doctor and idiotic patients who keep causing their own and their children's and spouse's miseries.
I find Dalrymple to be somewhat of a treasure, How often will we find someone who happens to meet the criteria of: a being a doctor in the public sector b
being highly cultured c writing wonderful prose d being highly critical of the system which pays his salaries e not following the PC rules of thinking/discourse
Quite rarely I suppose.
Eloquent, insightful, tragic, grim, and grimly funny, Anthony Malcolm Daniels, who generally uses the pen name Theodore Dalrymple, is an English writer and retired prison doctor and psychiatrist.
He worked in a number of Sub Saharan African countries as well as in the east end of London.
Before his retirement in, he worked in City Hospital, Birmingham and Winson Green Prison in inner city Birmingham, England.
Daniels is a contributing editor to City Journal, published by the Manhattan Institute, where he is the Dietrich Weismann Fellow.
In addition to City Journal, his work has appeared in The British Medical Journal, The Times, The Observer, The Daily Telegraph, The Spectator, The Salisbury , National , and Axess magasin.
In, Dalrymple received theFreedom Prize from Anthony Malcolm Daniels, who generally uses the pen name Theodore Dalrymple, is an English writer and retired prison doctor and psychiatrist.
He worked in a number of Sub Saharan African countries as well as in the east end of London.
Before his retirement in, he worked in City Hospital, Birmingham and Winson Green Prison in inner city Birmingham, England.
Daniels is a contributing editor to City Journal, published by the Manhattan Institute, where he is the Dietrich Weismann Fellow.
In addition to City Journal, his work has appeared in The British Medical Journal, The Times, The Observer, The Daily Telegraph, The Spectator, The Salisbury , National , and Axess magasin.
In, Dalrymple received theFreedom Prize from the Flemish think tank Libera!, sitelink.