Review: "The Lady Whose Mouth I Set on Fire" by Dr. McAnonymous

The Lady Whose Mouth I Set on Fire by Dr. McAnonymous
Published January 2021
★★★

Entertaining and brief stories from the emergency department. I like medical memoir (I always learn something), though I found the author's extended and repeated assurances that all of the stories were true to be tedious at best (could have been summed up in a single line—names and identifying details have been changed, but the stories in this book are all true, etc. etc.) and to leave me with a sense of the fourth wall being constantly knocked against. The chapters are largely thematic, with some longer stories but also quite a lot of very brief anecdotes. As ever, I'd have preferred more longer stories, but these were generally entertaining.