Going under

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The work Going under represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Randwick City Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

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Label

Going under

Statement of responsibility

Sonia Henry

Creator

• trueHenry, Sonia

Author

• trueHenry, Sonia

Subject

• trueBooks and reading
• trueHospitals
• Identity (Philosophical concept) -- Fiction
• trueIdentity (Psychology)
• Medical students -- Fiction
• truePhysicians
• Physicians -- Fiction
• trueAustralia
• trueSydney, New South Wales
• Teaching hospitals -- Fiction
• trueTransformations, Personal
• trueWomen authors
• trueWomen physicians
• Sydney (N.S.W.) -- Fiction
• Australian fiction

Genre

• Fiction
• Australian fiction

Language

eng

Summary

Dr Katarina 'Kitty' Holliday thought that once she finished medical school and found gainful employment at one of Sydney's best teaching hospitals that her dream was just beginning. The hard years, she thought, were finally over. But Kitty is in for a rude shock. Between trying to survive on the ward, in the operating theatre and in the emergency department without killing any of her patients or going under herself, Kitty finds herself facing situations that rock her very understanding of the vocation to which she intends to devote her life. Going Under is a rare insight into the world of a trainee female medic that takes an unflinching look at the reality of being a doctor. It explores the big themes - life, death, power and love - through the eyes of Dr Holliday as she loses her identity and nearly her mind in the pressure-cooker world of the hospital. But it is also there that Kitty might find her own redemption and finally know herself for the first time

Cataloging source

YDX

Index

no index present

Literary form

novels

Target audience

adult