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Ronald White-Cooper - Call the Doctor: A Country GP Between the Wars, Tales of Courage, Hardship and Hope - 9781447252122 - KSG0008065
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Call the Doctor: A Country GP Between the Wars, Tales of Courage, Hardship and Hope

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Description for Call the Doctor: A Country GP Between the Wars, Tales of Courage, Hardship and Hope Paperback. For fans of Call the Midwife and Nurse On Call, comes a funny, poignant account of life as a Devon country doctor. Editor(s): White-Cooper, Deborah. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKEWD; BGA; MBD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 192 x 126 x 19. Weight in Grams: 232. Good, clean copy. Marked on back cover, otherwise in very good condition.

Ronald White-Cooper may have worked as a doctor in London's slums and tended to badly wounded men on the Western Front, but when he arrived in Dartmouth in 1920 to set up as a GP he found himself facing some unique challenges. From the normally reliable midwife convinced she was being haunted to the retired colonel suffering mysterious fits, from the farmer who insisted rubbing in Bovril had cured his bad back to the young girl dying of tuberculosis, all his medical skills were put to the test.

Ronald initially did his rounds on horseback but gradually the world ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Pan Macmillan
Condition
Used, Like New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781447252122
SKU
KSG0008065
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1

About Ronald White-Cooper
Ronald White-Cooper was born in South Africa, but trained as a doctor at St Barts in London. He served as a doctor on the Western Front 1914-18, before returning to a post at Great Ormond Street hospital. He moved to Devon to work as a GP between 1920-49. His memoirs were found in an old trunk in an attic and ... Read more

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