In his hilarious book Getting into Practice, Edward Vernon (whose early years as a GP are described in Practice Makes Perfect and Practise What You Preach) describes his years at medical school. Still wet behind the ears, he found himself on a whirlwind tour through the seven ages of man and the 57 varieties of human nature. He has to learn how to examine real people, diagnose them without becoming emotionally involved and fend off the crises of confidence which await around every corner. The book is set in the 1970s and there will no doubt be some readers who might think that things were better then.
Edward Vernon is a pen name of a well known British doctor/author.
Here's what the critics said about the series:
Delightfully and wittily written. His descriptions of daunting receptionists, magazine-strewn waiting rooms and hypochondriacal patients will strike many familiar cords, but Dr Vernon is at his best when recounting his encounters in the surgery and at the bedside. For anyone needing to be entertained, and at times moved, there could be no better prescription than one chapter...taken each night at bedtime - Liverpool Echo
Truthful, well observed and consistently readable - Daily Telegraph
The funniest of the funny doctor books - Richard Gordon
Dr Vernon is onto a good thing; we could do with some more - Oxford Times
Hilarious - Titbits
Thoroughly delightful - Fresno Bee
Delightfully funny - 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 - Grimsby Evening Telegraph
Very funny - Citizen, Gloucester
Genuinely funny - South Wales Echo
Wise, funny, sad and heartwarming - Chattanooga Times
Good fun - Homes and Gardens
Jolly good reading - Publishers Weekly
Views the human species he treats with much the same affection, compassion and humour as Herriot brings to the animal world - Cleveland Plain Dealer
Sometimes serious, sometimes hilarious - Lancashire Evening Post
Will amuse, amaze and entertain - Yorkshire Post
etc etc
Edward Vernon is a pen name of a well known British doctor/author.
Here's what the critics said about the series:
Delightfully and wittily written. His descriptions of daunting receptionists, magazine-strewn waiting rooms and hypochondriacal patients will strike many familiar cords, but Dr Vernon is at his best when recounting his encounters in the surgery and at the bedside. For anyone needing to be entertained, and at times moved, there could be no better prescription than one chapter...taken each night at bedtime - Liverpool Echo
Truthful, well observed and consistently readable - Daily Telegraph
The funniest of the funny doctor books - Richard Gordon
Dr Vernon is onto a good thing; we could do with some more - Oxford Times
Hilarious - Titbits
Thoroughly delightful - Fresno Bee
Delightfully funny - 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 - Grimsby Evening Telegraph
Very funny - Citizen, Gloucester
Genuinely funny - South Wales Echo
Wise, funny, sad and heartwarming - Chattanooga Times
Good fun - Homes and Gardens
Jolly good reading - Publishers Weekly
Views the human species he treats with much the same affection, compassion and humour as Herriot brings to the animal world - Cleveland Plain Dealer
Sometimes serious, sometimes hilarious - Lancashire Evening Post
Will amuse, amaze and entertain - Yorkshire Post
etc etc
