Repeat Prescription: More tales of a rural GP: Further Tales of a Rural GP - Softcover

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'Being a doctor wasn't such a good idea, was it Daddy?' said Cressie, my daughter then aged four, regarding me solemnly across the kitchen table. And she had a point...

Following on from the huge success of Country Doctor: Tales of a Rural GP, Dr Michael Sparrow transports us yet again to his practice on the Devon and Cornwall border with a welcome second helping of his darkly humorous and refreshingly honest slice of life as a rural GP. Along the way he takes in his experiences at medical school, junior doctoring and his stint as an RAF doctor. Here, weighty matters of import are discussed without fear or favour-How far should we progress down the road of genetic engineering? Should euthanasia be legalised? Is constipation funny?

He takes us on to his rounds and into his confidence. What do you do when faced with the successful resuscitation of the wrong patient? How do you deal with the ethical dilemma of a dying elderly lady who presents you with a supermarket bag crammed full of £20 notes? Then, more surreally, there's the crisis of the jets crashing on a runway, the curiously fleeting glances of royal genitalia, the chaos of grand auto-car theft and a bizarre and totally unexpected appearance in the ladies loo in a multi-storey car park.

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