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Stanley Feldman. Confessions of a Doctor
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
IN THE BEGINNING
AN EVACUEE
SCHOOLS AT WAR
THE DOCTOR’S TALE
KING’S COLLEGE LONDON
HOSPITAL LIFE: THE WAY WE WERE
THE MATRON
THE DEAN
THE SURGEONS
THE CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL
THE GORDON HOSPITAL
OBSTETRICS
MEDICAL SCHOOL
HOSPITAL LIFE
ON THE WARDS: THE SURGICAL FIRM
THE MEDICAL FIRM
OBSTETRICS
ON THE DISTRICT
THE EYE FIRM
THE ANAESTHETIC FIRM
THE REFRESHER COURSE
THE FINALS
THE HOUSE JOBS
HOUSE PHYSICIAN
LIFE AT THE GORDON
HOUSE SURGEON
ANAESTHESIA
IN TRAINING
SURGERY
GENERAL SURGERY
OUTSIDE THE OPERATING THEATRE
EXAMINING
THE BERNARD JOHNSON ADVISER
LECTURE TOURS
STANFORD UNIVERSITY, CALIFORNIA
RESEARCH
A DOCTOR’S LIFE
RETIREMENT
GRUMPY OLD MAN?
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
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This tale would not have been written but for the insistence of my colleagues. They, like me, have many happy memories of our time in medicine and felt that, in the rapidly changing world of the hospital from the early days of the NHS to recent times, there should be a record of what life used to be like.
I would like to pay tribute to the doctors and nurses with whom I have had the pleasure to work. Had we not all shared the common goal of seeing that our patients received the best treatment possible, no matter what the personal cost, then many of the events chronicled in this book would not have occurred and we would not be able to look back at those times with so much pleasure and satisfaction.
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(Sir Clement was a fiery Welshman who operated wearing wooden Welsh clogs. Should any registrar get in his way, one of these weighty clogs would deliver a blow to his shins that would soon cause the offender to mend his ways. More experienced registrars soon learned to wear football shin pads under their socks as a badge of honour.)
The king had expressed a wish to be nursed by men, as he was rather shy and was embarrassed by the attention of female nurses. As a result, Sir Clement’s registrar was deputed to look after him. When the young surgical registrar arrived at the palace carrying a paper bag containing his personal luggage, he announced his presence with the immortal words, ‘Where are the ladies in waiting? I am the man they have been waiting for’. He was the only member of the surgical team not to receive an honour or a gift from the royal establishment.
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