Postmortem
Subtitle: the doctor who walked away
By: Maria Phalime
Publisher: Tafelberg
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Cape Town
Language: eng
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780624057604; 9780624057611
Subjects: Women physicians; Biography; Medical care; Public hospitals; Social medicine
Description: "As a young medical student from Soweto, Maria Phalime had high expectations for life as a doctor. Then she started to practise and was confronted with inhuman hours, overflowing emergency rooms, poor resources and little support. After nine years of study and four years practising, she hung up her stethoscope, turning her back on a long-cherished dream. As she goes in search of answers, she speaks to other doctors who gave up medicine and uncovers common issues ailing the health sector. A moving personal account that exposes the pressures that come with being a doctor in South Africa." -- Back cover.