★英亞馬遜暢銷書榜臨床管理#51；醫院行政與管理#54
★《泰晤士報》、《愛爾蘭日報》等眾家英國報社大力讚賞

一部具有重量的醫療寫實作品，帶領讀者領略現代醫院裡頭種種超越生死的情緒與智慧。

「醫院」是現代社會中最背負重任的機構之一。人們對它抱有遠大的寄望，卻也時常將醫療人員錯估為神…失望、分離、轉機與希望，日日夜夜在這個地方，正如醫護人員從未停機般地運轉。

作者Seamus O’Mahony將他多年的醫師經驗撰寫進這部作品，如實記載了眾多的病房故事、意料之外的死亡、醫療體系中的災難、以及臨床世界裡的道德兩難。

《The Ministry of Bodies》並非一部傳統型醫療回憶錄，而是透過醫院中來來去去的角色所堆疊出的傳記。我們將會看到自我毀滅性強烈，難以戒除毒癮和酒癮的患者、對人生感到迷惑的病人，以及感到徒然，卻也不放棄前進的專科醫師…等真實色彩濃厚的角色。O’Mahony極富機智的筆鋒，直直地瞄準了醫院生活中有趣又荒唐的謬事，然而他高度細膩的觀察，也點亮了讀者對人性的覺察。

西穆斯‧奧馬霍尼(Seamus O’Mahony)，退休醫師，也是一位得獎作家。西穆斯曾在英國國民健保署(NHS)任職多年，而後返回家鄉愛爾蘭科克(Cork)，擔任醫學教授與胃腸科醫師。他的代表作包含《The Way We Die Now》，榮獲英國醫學協會(BMA)文學獎；《Can Medicine Be Cured?》，熱銷高達14,000冊；其餘著作散見於《愛爾蘭時報》、《倫敦醫學期刊》、《愛爾蘭獨立報》等報刊媒體。他的作品被翻譯為日、韓等5種語言。

'Sharp and pithy observations ... An insight into the realities of healthcare that no journalist could hope to capture'—Danielle Barron, Irish Times

'No one writes as clearly and intelligently about modern medicine as Seamus O'Mahony'—Emily Hourican, Sunday Independent

'Wonderfully funny and curmudgeonly, The Ministry of Bodies is a descent into the very bowels of modern medicine, as brilliant and candid as Solzhenitsyn's Cancer Ward'—Kevin Toolis

'Doctors tend to be seen as saints and heroes, but that's a picture few of them recognise. Seamus O'Mahony, a medical Dostoevsky, gives a much more interesting and much funnier portrayal of a doctor's life'—Richard Smith, former editor of the British Medical Journal

'The Ministry of Bodies has much of what we expect from O'Mahony – it's blunt, witty, erudite, curmudgeonly'—Melanie Reid, The Times

'There's plenty of interesting strangeness'—iNews

'Funny, sad, infuriating, heartening and depressing, all in almost equal measure, although the overarching theme is one of deep regret for what has been lost ... There are many parts of The Ministry of Bodies that had me laughing out loud ... O'Mahony has a very keen eye for the absurd. But much of it made me wince too ... The moral conviction of the book is unwavering'—Irish Sunday Independent