Reading

Squeezing in some medical reading, which is harder for me than podcasts as you have to sit down!

I'm enjoying Will Self's Booker Prize short listed 'Umbrella' although there are no chapters and keeping up with the narrative requires a lot of concentration. He has a lot to say about medical care, labelling stigma and institutionalisation. I wonder how non medics find it to read. I know he wrote this when he was unwell, then found out to have Polycythaemia Rubra Vera and I've read articles by him about his experience as a patient-

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/oct/21/will-self-blood-disease

I keep reading other people's opinion of Ben Goldacre's Bad Pharma, once I've chewed through Umbrella that will be the next big read on my list!