Just One More Question
  • Published: 4 April 2019
  • ISBN: 9781844884582
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 272

Just One More Question

Stories from a Life in Neurology

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18 Feb 2020
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4 Apr 2019
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An eye-opening, gripping and moving account of dealing with some of medicine's most complicated challenges

An eye-opening, gripping and moving account of dealing with some of medicine's most complicated challenges

As a trainee doctor, fascinated by the ways the brain and nervous system signal problems with the body's wiring, Niall Tubridy fell in love with neurology. This was high stakes detective work where answers could be life-changing.

The young doctor who relished the intellectual puzzle soon became even more intrigued by the human stories behind each set of symptoms. And he found his own character tested. How do you handle such high pressure work - often with sad outcomes for patients - and remain grounded and positive? Can you?

Just One More Question is the story of Niall Tubridy's life in neurology. It includes gripping accounts of his patients - encounters that are, by turn, moving, dramatic and funny - and using simple and illuminating language he explains well-known conditions such as multiple sclerosis, Parkinson's disease and motor neurone disease.

In addition, he reflects candidly on his life and the reasons he, a doctor's son, went into medicine and what he has learned about himself along the way. With great honesty, he scrutinizes his own actions and reactions so that Just One More Question becomes a brave exploration of the big question - how can I be a better doctor? Dr. Tubridy's book is an extraordinary and revealing insight into the human challenge of working in this most complex area of medicine.
  • Published: 4 April 2019
  • ISBN: 9781844884582
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 272
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Praise for Just One More Question

Fascinating

Liz Nugent

[My brother] has written a book which has to be one of the most extraordinary books written in Irish medical history! I would say that, wouldn't I? But it is great. It's really good, really accessible, a super read. We're all very proud of him

Ryan Tubridy

Compelling ... colourful, thoughtful

Sunday Independent

It's a most readable book. There's no jargon in it

Seán O'Rourke, RTÉ

Niall's sense of wonder at the human brain is enormously clear even with almost three decades of work in the field under his belt

RTÉ Lifestyle

Very interesting and very entertaining

Pat Kenny

Will make you think in a whole new way about the human brain

Ireland AM

A book that will fascinate you with the patients' tales but leave you at the end pondering the notion of what life really is

Journal.ie

Simple and illuminating

Irish News

[Tubridy] renders sometimes complex medical concepts understandable for the general reader ... good on the sometimes unbearable pressures on doctors

Irish Times

Fascinating ... The book teems with interesting characters

Sunday Business Post

Written in a very accessible way for non-medical people, like myself

Dave Fanning, RTÉ

[Oliver] Sacks hoped that his neurological tales ... could bring us closer to where the psychic and the physical meet ... Tubridy's concerns are less rarefied. He wants us to understand the human toll that illness takes

Sunday Times
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