This is the second of Edward Vernon's books about a young GP. (Edward Vernon is a pen name of a well known British doctor/author.) Set in the 1970s, in a small town in the English midlands, the book describes the medical misadventures of a young, harassed GP who is learning on the job. There's the embarrassed vicar with the guilty secret, the private patient who pays him to keep her ill, a beautiful young patient who insists on being examined in the bath, a six year old marble swallower and an a difficult encounter with a patient who can't speak a word of English. A huge hit in the UK and the USA when first published these books have only now been made available as ebooks on Amazon.
Here's what the critics said about the Edward Vernon books:
Warm and humorous...the anecdotes pour out of every page - Lancashire Evening Post
Genuinely funny - South Wales Argus
Wise, funny, sad and heartwarming - Chattanooga Times
Most of his adventures are funny, some hilarious; but he has the good sense to leven the comedy lump with some that are sad, some touching. All are written lightly, easily, entertainingly - Oxford Times
Good fun - Homes and Gardens
The funniest of the funny doctor books - Richard Gordon
Jolly good reading - Publishers Weekly
Truthful, well observed and consistently readable - Daily Telegraph
Will amuse, amaze and entertain - Yorkshire Post
Views the human species he treats with much the same affection, compassion and humour as Herriot brings to the animal world - Cleveland Plain Daler
Thoroughly delightful - Fresno Bee
Hilarious - Titbits
A delightfully funny book that keeps the reader laughing and appeals to one's sense of the ridiculous - Sunday Advocate, Baton Rouge
For entertainment, a chapter or two before bedtime is just what the doctor ordered - Sacromento Bee
Does for British GPs what Herriot has done for vets - Booklist
Hilarious, written with skill and zest - Evening Telegraph
Very funny - Citizen, Gloucester
etc etc
Here's what the critics said about the Edward Vernon books:
Warm and humorous...the anecdotes pour out of every page - Lancashire Evening Post
Genuinely funny - South Wales Argus
Wise, funny, sad and heartwarming - Chattanooga Times
Most of his adventures are funny, some hilarious; but he has the good sense to leven the comedy lump with some that are sad, some touching. All are written lightly, easily, entertainingly - Oxford Times
Good fun - Homes and Gardens
The funniest of the funny doctor books - Richard Gordon
Jolly good reading - Publishers Weekly
Truthful, well observed and consistently readable - Daily Telegraph
Will amuse, amaze and entertain - Yorkshire Post
Views the human species he treats with much the same affection, compassion and humour as Herriot brings to the animal world - Cleveland Plain Daler
Thoroughly delightful - Fresno Bee
Hilarious - Titbits
A delightfully funny book that keeps the reader laughing and appeals to one's sense of the ridiculous - Sunday Advocate, Baton Rouge
For entertainment, a chapter or two before bedtime is just what the doctor ordered - Sacromento Bee
Does for British GPs what Herriot has done for vets - Booklist
Hilarious, written with skill and zest - Evening Telegraph
Very funny - Citizen, Gloucester
etc etc
