Richard Gordon is a qualified doctor (anesthetist) known for his 'Doctor' books which have been made into films and TV series. As expected it was a light hearted English comedy with all parties being in good moods and possessing a Right Ho attitude.
Many characters come to the fore immediately which confused me - Sir Lancelot who seems to be a doctor himself and one of repute, a dean and his daughter Faith, which means we need a nephew somewhere who comes in the form of Pip, a desultory medical student who fails all his exams but take sup the cause of the unions with great responsibility. Why Pip becomes a Union man and how he he goes about organising a strike against the hospital management is the rest of the story with one hot film star who is thrown in as a hospital patient.
Rupa seems to have published this book as part of some promotional campaign for doctors as the book has a sticker on the back cover promoting Losartan which brings a smile to all. The book is supposed to bring a smile to all surely but as we go to the end the number of ant the kind of printing and spelling errors they have let go shocked me - there must have been at least 20-30 of them (od instead of do for example). How can anything, even a transactional commitment like this, come out with such bad production values.
The books by itself is a fun read. Light hearted, some talk about the hospital system. All's well and that ends well.
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