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Captain Albert Ebbs - M.B.E - expecting to be fired from his job captaining Pole Star company's line freighter the Martin Luther for some unvarnished speaking, is pleasantly surprised to find himself promoted to Captain of the luxury passenger liner Charlemagne. This being a long-held dream since his cadet days, he is confident of handling his duties - after all, all ships float on water, contain machinery and sleep and feed people. It's only the people who differ...and he finds out how very much they do differ! Now he must host cocktail parties, dance with lady passengers, cope with amorous widows, deal with a Chief Officer who's a serial womaniser and a Purser making money on the side by stealing ships supplies - and if all that weren't enough, a lot of unruly children and a crusty British Army officer who claims to know the Chairman of the Board. Subtle and sly British humor. -
Book V of the Doctor series. Dr. Simon Sparrow looks forward to a life of tranquillity and order as a respectable homeowner with a new wife, life insurance and a law mower. But that was before his old friend Dr Grimsdyke took to using their home as a place of refuge from his various mischiefs - particularly the incident involving an actress which produced theatrical rather than medical complications. That was more than enough without the appearance of Simon’s godfather, the eminent Sir Lancelot Spratt, now retired from St. Swithin's after thirty years of getting his own way. Sir Lancelot is descending on his mild-mannered colleague Hubert Cambridge, ready to seize control of the plans for the St. Swithin's Bicentenary celebrations - and he does call on Simon but his visit is spectacularly curtailed! -
The rise and fall of John Rumbelow, a monstrously arrogant pathologist whose expert testimony sends men to the gallows on the strength of his word and reputation. A notable departure for Gordon, known for his comedic Doctor series. -
Book II of the Doctor series. What's the best way for a young up and coming medic to escape from an unwanted marriage? Simple - sign on as a ship's doctor so that he can be away from England's shores for a sizeable period of time! The Fathom Steam Ship Company's the Lotus comes complete with a light-fingered assistant, a cantankerous curmudgeon of a captain and randy ship-mates - all bordering on chronic alcoholism. The main on-board prescription is 'medical comforts' - that is, any liquor within arm's reach. The medical equipment having mostly been stolen and sold, the next best set of tools for an appendectomy is a rusty spoon and bent fork...but it's an educational and entertaining trip to South America and back. -
Graham Trevose is an ardent pioneer of reconstructive surgery, having seen its huge benefit under the hands of a talented American surgeon. However, London is not America and this new form of treatment is received with deep suspicion by orthodox medicine. It is seen as 'defying God’s will' and interfering with matters entirely out of bounds. Yet Trevose is completely committed to this work and uses it to help those in desperate need – whilst also benefiting from performing plastic surgery on the rich and famous.The ethical debates which perplexed medical men in post-First-World-War London, confronted with the horrific injuries of war, are not too far from the issues that today's doctors grapple with as they face the issues of human cloning, animal organ transplants and embryo-screening. -
Doctor In The House: Book I of the Doctor series. Richard Gordon's acceptance into St Swithin's medical school came as no surprise to anyone, least of all him - after all, he had been to public school, played first XV rugby and his father was ( let's face it) 'a St Swithin's man'. Surely he was set for life. It was rather a shock then to discover that, once there, he would actually have to work - and quite hard. Fortunately for Richard Gordon, life proved not to be all dissection and textbooks after all...as well as lectures, clinic and wards, there's the eccentricities of surgeons, amorous adventures, the wisdom of the 'Padre' (the landlord of the students' local pub) as a bunch of irresponsible students are transformed into doctors. Doctor At Sea: Book II of the Doctor series. What's the best way for a young up and coming medic to escape from an unwanted marriage? Simple - sign on as a ship's doctor so that he can be away from England's shores for a sizeable period of time! The Fathom Steam Ship Company's the Lotus comes complete with a light-fingered assistant, a cantankerous curmudgeon of a captain and randy ship-mates - all bordering on chronic alcoholism. The main on-board prescription is 'medical comforts' - that is, any liquor within arm's reach. The medical equipment having mostly been stolen and sold, the next best set of tools for an appendectomy is a rusty spoon and bent fork...but it's an educational and entertaining trip to South America and back. Richard Gordon later changed the name of his central character to Simon Sparrow - from his own! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Gordon_(English_author) -
The infamous Sr Lancelot Spratt, now retired, wants only to vegetate in Wales and fish the old Witches' Pool on his land. But is it on his land? Chadwick, Sir Lancelot's new neighbour - a marmalade tycoon - claims that the pond is his, by right, deed and title. Sir Lancelot's breakneck visit to London to enlist his solicitors in the battle with Chadwick set off an uproarious chain of events and proves that even in retirement, Sir Lancelot is still a force to be reckoned with. Nor has his retreat to the countryside weakened his penchant for arranging the lives of others - with results frequently to his own embarrassment. -
Known for his series of Doctor books, Gordon has put together fifty of the most bizarre medical incidents, mistakes, blunders and litigations in history. Man’s activities have been tainted by disaster ever since the serpent first approached Eve in the garden - and the world of medicine is no exception. In this outrageous yet informative book, Richard Gordon explores some of history’s more bizarre medical disasters. He creates a catalogue of mishaps including anthrax bombs on Gruinard Island, destroying mosquitoes in Panama, and Mary the cook who, in 1904, inadvertently spread Typhoid across New York State. -
Book XX of Doctor series. From the author of the practically-infamous Doctor series of books, film and television comes a brilliant solution to the bunglings of the National Health Service: The Lady With The Lamp. The legendary Florence Nightingale returns to Earth, determined to reorganise the NHS, as she memorably reorganised the medical chaos of the Crimean War. And more: the late Sir Lancelot Spratt also returns to stop the NHS closing his beloved St. Swithin's Hospital. He's not having it. The combined effect of these ghostly visitations is that of a UFO landing on the Ministry of Health. Meanwhile, the wild Professor Whapshott is recreating the human race with his gene-loaded mega-mosquitoes...
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