There's a Nasty Cancer in the Health Service - Softcover

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"JRY" is a dyed in the wool Yorkshireman. He worked as a consultant surgeon in North Devon ("doing missionary work") for over thirty years. His surgical specialty was otolaryngology (ear, nose and throat) and he was perhaps best known in this field for his work on the sexual aspects of the nose (a subject in which he says there is little competition)!He has written seven other books. The first was a study of the "Inns and Taverns of Old Norwich" which he wrote when he was a houseman in that fine city in 1972. He has co-authored a couple on surgery and some other obscure subjects include a short book on Military History and an illustrated book on Devon Church Architecture. Perhaps the most arcane title was Poetry, Physick, Pestilence and Pox; Medical Ideas in English Poetry to the End of the Seventeenth Century.He has always enjoyed battling with hospital administrators since qualifying as a house surgeon at Doncaster Royal Infirmary in 1971. He has continued giving them a hard time right up until he retired in 2013. They tried to get rid of him after his controversial book about their gross incompetence, The Hospital Revolution but he always managed to keep one step ahead and they never succeeded in sacking him.He has always had military connections and was formerly the Commanding Officer of a TA Field Hospital based in Plymouth. He retired from the Army List holding the rank of substantive Colonel.He lists his hobbies as long distance walking, fishing, shooting, making stained-glass windows, cabinet-making, woodcarving, Punch and Judy, growing prize-winning Sweet Peas, British Bulldogs and Arabic/Farsi calligraphy.He is married to a retired paediatrician and they have five children, lots of grandchildren and a bulldog.