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Seaside Practice: Tales of a Scottish Country Doctor - Softcover

Smith, Dr Tom

 
9781804193044: Seaside Practice: Tales of a Scottish Country Doctor

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When he arrives to take up his first posting as a GP in Collintrae, a small fishing village on the West Coast of Scotland, young Tom Smith isn't quite sure what to expect. Certainly, nothing in his medical training could have prepared him for what he finds - a baker with nine lives, Mad Maggie in the River Muck, and a gaggle of giggling nuns, to name but a few of the extraordinary cases that he comes up against in his first few years there.

Heartwarming, gloriously eccentric, Dr Tom's stories will touch everyone with their easy comic charm. They capture the beauty of the Scottish lowlands, the joys and sorrows of its inhabitants, and the richly rewarding experiences of life as a Scottish country doctor. Whoever thought that a job could be so wildly unpredictable...

'An entertaining and insightful read' Daily Express

'It's all in a day's work for the James Herriot of human beings' Glasgow Evening Times

'Characters and cases unfold in this delightful book that reads like All Characters Great and Small' The Glaswegian

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Dr Tom Smith MB ChB, Dip Pharm Med is 66 years old. During the course of a successful medical career, he has been a GP, published several health books, made TV and radio appearances and written for numerous medical journals and newspapers. He is also the author of A Seaside Practice (Short Books, 2007), which has been a top ten bestseller in Scotland, and has a column in the Guardian magazine. He is married with two children and five grandchildren and lives in Scotland.

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