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Scrubbed

A Heart Surgeon’s Extraordinary Memoir of Life, Death and Everything in Between

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Scrubbed

By: Nikki Stamp
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The revealing, compelling memoir of one of Australia's foremost cardiothoracic surgeons, Dr Nikki Stamp.

From childhood, Nikki Stamp wanted to be a doctor. It was a calling, not a career. Her love for her vocation only grew as a medical student, and as a young registrar going through training rotations she fell, totally and utterly, for the hugely demanding speciality of cardiothoracic surgery. But alongside the excitement and enormous challenges of trying to make it in one of the toughest and most competitive fields of surgery came warning signs. Even in the operating theatre, where she felt most alive, she battled with sexism, enormous egos and at times outright bullying. And within the hospital system, she lived with inhuman hours, chronic sleep deprivation and bureaucratic mismanagement that had a profoundly damaging effect on her life outside of work.

From the drama of the operating theatre, filled with both triumph and tragedy, to the brutal realities of surgical training and the sacrifices needed to make it to the top, to entrenched misogyny and the grinding nature of hospital politics, Scrubbed is one of the most revealing audiobooks about the real life and experiences of a surgeon.

©2022 Dr Nikki Stamp (P)2022 Bolinda Publishing Medical Professionals & Academics Women Memoir Surgery
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Thanks for confirming my own experience working in the clinical environment - especially the public health system. Glad I moved on as well and become an entrepreneur, before suffering potential brain rot or worse.

Confirms my own experience!

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An explosive, though not new, look behind the scenes of a section of the Australian Medical department.
What now? Can females ever get the same opportunities?

some story!

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Wonderful book - highly recommend! I hope you are running the health care system one day!

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Great insight into a doctor’s passion in an unideal culture — I loved hearing the passion of medicine and the journey to her chosen specialty! But it is truly sad that the politics and culture in major hospitals ends up breaking so many great doctors and surgeons. I hope this gets better for our future health professionals

Great insight into a doctor’s passion in an unideal culture

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Loved your book a true insight

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