Mrs Samantha Dougal is against it. Nudity that is. In a Soho strip-club, the Dean of St Swithan's Hospital feigns indifference. Mrs Dougal's husband, however, is totally in favour - and has just moved in with the Dean, who just happens to be his brother-in-law. The jokes positively spill from this elegantly written and languorously witty tale that includes Sir Lancelot, the Queen, a totally impractical new building, and the voluptuous young daughter of the trendy hospital chaplain.
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... Not a book to read on a train: it's impossible to keep a straight face' -- Sunday Telegraph
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Richard Gordon is best-known for his hilarious 'Doctor' books and the long-running television series they inspired. Born in 1921, he qualified as a doctor and went on to work as an anaesthetist at the famous St Bartholomew's Hospital, before a spell as a ship's surgeon and then as assistant editor of the British Medical Journal. In 1952, before leaving medical practice in 1952 to take up writing full time and embarking upon the 'Doctor' series. Many of these are based on these experiences in the medical profession and are all told with the rye wit and candid humour that have become his hallmark. They have proved enduringly successful and have been adapted into both film and TV. His 'Great Medical Mysteries' and 'Great Medical Discoveries' concern the stranger aspects of the medical profession, whilst 'The Private Life' series takes a deeper look at individual figures within their specific medical and historical setting. Clearly an incredibly versatile writer, he will, however, always be best known for his comic tone coupled with remarkable powers of observation inherent in the hilarious 'Doctor' series. 'Mr Gordon is in his way the P G Wodehouse of the general hospitals' - The Daily Telegraph. 'I wish some more solemn novelists had half Mr Gordon's professional skills' - Julian Symonds, Sunday Times
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Sir Lancelot, Professor Oliphant, Sir Lionel, Auberon Dougal, Miss Clitworth, Uncle Auberon, Greek Street, Lazar Row, Royal Household, Reverend Nosworthy, League of Friends, Hamish M'Turk, The Reverend Becket, Horndean Hall, Miss Duffin, Clem Undercroft, Ministry of Health, Soho Clinic, Ritz Hotel, Dulcie Yarborough Browse Sample Pages:
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Sir Lancelot, Professor Oliphant, Sir Lionel, Auberon Dougal, Miss Clitworth, Uncle Auberon, Greek Street, Lazar Row, Royal Household, Reverend Nosworthy, League of Friends, Hamish M'Turk, The Reverend Becket, Horndean Hall, Miss Duffin, Clem Undercroft, Ministry of Health, Soho Clinic, Ritz Hotel, Dulcie Yarborough Browse Sample Pages:
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