It's a Long Story, Doctor!: There You are, Doctor!, On Holiday Again, Doctor?, You're Still a Doctor, Doctor! Robert Clifford
This is an omnibus edition of There You Are, Doctor!, On Holiday Again, Doctor? and You're Still a Doctor, Doctor!, in which a retired country GP recalls encounters with eccentric patients and extraordinary complaints. Dr Clifford brings out the colourful side of medicine, introducing characters such as Miss Peabody, the elderly spinster ever hopeful of a pools win, and William Jessop, the blind man with a difference. Getting away from it all is not quite the relaxing, welcome break a doctor hopes for as he deals with gastro-enteritis in Marrakesh and kidney stones in the Sahara. And the same could be said for the joy of retirement - it seems Dr Clifford will always be on call.