Rachel´s Random Resources: You Know the Drill. The Private Musings of a Dentist by Dr. Bill

´(...) I love the act of performing dentistry, but I hate being a dentist´.

I belong to a very special category of people who were never afraid of dentists. And of doctors, in general. I grew up being surrounded by different categories of doctors, and even wanted once to be one myself. Plus, due to some genetically inherited bad teeth, my visits to the dentist´s started very early in life and continued without a pause even since. 

But I rarely gave too many thoughts about how everyday life of a dentist may actually look and feel like. Thanks to the super hilarious memoir of Dr. Bill who wrote You Know the Drill (I wanted to play the rhyme on purpose). The Private Musings of a Dentist I got to learn a lot not only about the everyday cast of characters a dentist may encounter, but also about the medical school structure in England or the apprenticeship system. 

´Anyway, we live, we learn and we change´.

By far, the strength of this book is the humour, particularly when it comes to describing his interactions with his patients and colleagues. How one cannot laugh to tears when reading such a sequence: ´Tamy´s eyes were rolling like a drunk trying to operate a pinball machine´? 

Any aspiring dentist must read this book in order to be tailor his or her expectations accordingly. Also, if you are a frequent visitor at the dentist´s office, you may also learn how to control oneself, otherwise you may anonymously end up in a book.

Rating: 3 stars

Disclaimer: Book offered as part of the book tour but the opinions are, as usual, my own