Doctor In The House
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Yellowed
Markings: Previous owner
Welcome to St. Swithin's Hospital, where the wards are long, the professors are terrifying, and the path to becoming a doctor is paved with spectacular blunders and riotous misadventure. Richard Gordon's Doctor in the House chronicles the chaotic medical education of Simon Sparrow, a hapless yet endearing student navigating the formidable gauntlet of anatomy dissections, fearsome consultants, and nerve-shredding final examinations — all rendered with a pitch-perfect comic touch that made this 1952 debut an instant British classic. Gordon, himself a qualified physician and former anaesthetist at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, draws on authentic insider knowledge to craft a world that is simultaneously absurd and achingly familiar. Beneath the relentless farce lies a warm and affectionate portrait of a uniquely demanding vocation, and the unlikely brotherhood forged among those who survive it. The result is a novel whose wit has lost none of its sharpness across the decades — and one that will leave any reader wondering how medicine ever managed to produce competent doctors at all.
Author: Richard Gordon
Format: Hardback
Genre: Humour
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Yellowed
Markings: Previous owner
Welcome to St. Swithin's Hospital, where the wards are long, the professors are terrifying, and the path to becoming a doctor is paved with spectacular blunders and riotous misadventure. Richard Gordon's Doctor in the House chronicles the chaotic medical education of Simon Sparrow, a hapless yet endearing student navigating the formidable gauntlet of anatomy dissections, fearsome consultants, and nerve-shredding final examinations — all rendered with a pitch-perfect comic touch that made this 1952 debut an instant British classic. Gordon, himself a qualified physician and former anaesthetist at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, draws on authentic insider knowledge to craft a world that is simultaneously absurd and achingly familiar. Beneath the relentless farce lies a warm and affectionate portrait of a uniquely demanding vocation, and the unlikely brotherhood forged among those who survive it. The result is a novel whose wit has lost none of its sharpness across the decades — and one that will leave any reader wondering how medicine ever managed to produce competent doctors at all.