<p>"It's the medical equivalent of AllCreatures Great and Small" -- Patrick Taylor. New York Times & USAToday best-selling author of the Irish Country Doctor series</p>
<p>"Funny and moving stories . If you'retired of misery lit, read this and feel better. This book has something to sayto today's trainees." -- The Obstetrician and Gynaecologist</p>
<p>"The description of life as a medicalstudent and young doctor is authentic, told with humour and laced with directquotes from colleagues and patients, often in the colourful Belfast vernacular ...A valuable account of a system of training that is now part of history" --Ulster Medical Journal</p>
<p>"Told as a series of patient stories... In the virtual and technology-driven world we inhabit, this gentle volumereminds us that, at the core, medicine is about people" -- Journal ofObstetrics and Gynecology Canada</p>
<p>"It reads as tales given after dinner atthe fireside. Humorous and self-deprecating, but at times serious and poignant,describing the limits of 1960s medicine. A good read, with education andthought thrown in" -- British Society for the History of Medicine</p>