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Tony plans to save the world one patient at a time, but first, he has to survive the training.

Tony McCluskey is brimming with youthful vigour and enthusiasm at the start of a six-year training programme to fight death and disease on the NHS frontline. Even though his first patient is already dead, there's a lot Tony can learn from somebody with...

Getting your patients under is an art. Bringing them back safely again is a bloody miracle.

Tony sets out on his career as an anaesthetist and soon discovers that getting his patients off to sleep and keeping them asleep until their operations are over is easier said than done. Waking them up safely afterwards with no ill effects is even harder....

“The buck stops here” isn’t just a metaphor for an NHS consultant – it’s a cardiac monitor flatlining and you're the person who will have to tell his wife.

After years serving in the trenches on the NHS frontline, Tony has been transferred to staff headquarters as a consultant anaesthetist with a special interest in the care of critically ill...