Country Doctor: Tales of a Rural GP

Country Doctor: Tales of a Rural GP

by Michael Sparrow (Author)

Synopsis

Have you ever had to decide what to do with a very large dead body on a Mexican beach, or an unidentified corpse by a Devonian cowshed when the herd is due in for milking? How should you deal with a drug runner rescued from the Caribbean sea when he pulls a gun on you? And how would you react if one of your patients was abducted by aliens? If you are a GP it seems these are routine matters. From coping with the suicide of a colleague to the unusual whereabouts of a jar of Coleman's mustard, this is the story of one rural doctor's often misguided attempts to make sense of the career in which he has unwittingly found himself.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 320
Publisher: Robinson Publishing
Published: 24 Jan 2002

ISBN 10: 1841194212
ISBN 13: 9781841194219
Book Overview: Have you ever had to decide what to do with an unidentified corpse by a Devonian cow shed when the herd is due in for milking? This is a blackly funny account of one GP's daily round, and his misguided attempts to make sense of the career in which he has unwittingly found himself.

Author Bio
Dr Michael Sparrow, now happily settled on the Devon/Cornwall border, has charted an unconventional course from the immaturity and uncertainty of life as a medical student, through hospital jobs and a six year spell in the Royal Air Force, to the immaturity and uncertainty of life as a rural GP. Aged somewhere between qualification and retirement, he is delighted to have finally left the bottom rung of his career.