Swithins hospital in london, the story concerns the exploits and various pranks of a young medical student. In 1952, he left medical practice to take up writing full. Gordon ostlere, a highlyqualified surgeon and anaethetist and contemporary of my uncle who was a reknowned anaethestist himself but i didnt know that at the time. Richard gordons misadventures of student doctor simon sparrow at st swithins hospital. Gordon s cheerful refusal to be overawed by the world. He was best known for a long series of comic novels on a medical theme beginning with doctor in the house, and the subsequent film, television, radio and stage adaptations.
Bartholomews hospital, before a spell as a ships surgeon and then as assistant editor of the british medical journal. Doctor in the house by richard gordon nook book ebook. Before writing doctor in the house, he was a surgeon in. Richard gordon s doctor in the house is just what the doctor ordered for thoroughly good light reading. The doctor books were written as memoirs, a fiction continued by the author and main characters name being the same. Doctorturnedauthor richard gordon, who penned the doctor books in the 1950s and 60s, has died aged 95. Richard gordon is bestknown for his hilarious doctor series books and the longrunning television series they inspired. Gordon takes the reader with him through the lectures,clinics and hospital wards,which are the elements of medical training at a time when the almighty was neither the cosultant nor the registrar but the formidable matron. Doctor in the house is a comic novel by richard gordon, published in 1952. Itvrexshutterstock in the private life of jack the ripper 1980, he came to. Richard gordon was a qualified doctor, but left his medical life to become a fulltime writer in 1952. Richard gordon turned from medicine to writing, drawing on his experiences as an anesthesiologist in the popular book, television and film series doctor in the house. Born in 1921, he qualified as a doctor and went on to work as an anesthetist at the famous st. Swithins hospital in london, the story concerns the exploits and various pranks of a young.
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