Whats Up Doc?

by Hilary Jones (Author)

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  2009

  $14.08

  To be or not to be. That is not the question. Not for Dr Hilary Jones anyway. For him, the question is 'What s up doc?' and that has been true ever since he qualified as a doctor at the Royal Free hospital in London over thirty years ago. As a junior medic patients used to ask him What s up doc? when he prodded their bellies for signs of appendicitis. On the GMTV sofa presenters ask him what s up with the latest actress who has developed the typical tell-tale signs of anorexia nervosa. In the tabloid newspapers he's asked to comment on what s up with the premier league footballer who purports to suffer from sex addiction.On the radio he's asked 'What s up?' with the health of society in general, suffering as it does from epidemics of obesity and binge drinking. On a more everyday basis, in the GP surgery people ask him about unexplained lumps in their neck, whether a pigmented mole is suspicious and should be removed or about the slurred speech and numbness in their face that they have experienced the pre