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Surgeon at Arms continues the story of the much-admired surgeon, Graham Trevose, who first appeared in The Facemaker. As the Second World War breaks out and begins to yield its countless casualties, Trevose uses his skills as a plastic surgeon to rebuild burned faces and damaged limbs. For this, his grateful patients name him 'The Wizard' and he is hailed a hero. Yet Trevose's rather unorthodox private life begins to make him enemies which prove as much a challenge as his work in the military hospitals. In the rise and fall of this bold, talented yet fallible surgeon, Richard Gordon presents the achievements and disappointments of the entire nation.
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Richard Gordon is best-known for his hilarious 'Doctor' books and the long-running television series they inspired. Born in 1921, he qualified as a doctor and went on to work as an anaesthetist at the famous St Bartholomew's Hospital, before a spell as a ship's surgeon and then as assistant editor of the British Medical Journal. In 1952, before leaving medical practice in 1952 to take up writing full time and embarking upon the 'Doctor' series. Many of these are based on these experiences in the medical profession and are all told with the rye wit and candid humour that have become his hallmark. They have proved enduringly successful and have been adapted into both film and TV. His 'Great Medical Mysteries' and 'Great Medical Discoveries' concern the stranger aspects of the medical profession, whilst 'The Private Life' series takes a deeper look at individual figures within their specific medical and historical setting. Clearly an incredibly versatile writer, he will, however, always be best known for his comic tone coupled with remarkable powers of observation inherent in the hilarious 'Doctor' series. 'Mr Gordon is in his way the P G Wodehouse of the general hospitals' - The Daily Telegraph. 'I wish some more solemn novelists had half Mr Gordon's professional skills' - Julian Symonds, Sunday Times
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The Facemaker and Surgeon at Arms tell the story of Graham Trevose, a man who manages to do good and even be a decent human being at times, despite his many weaknesses - he's self-centred and impulsive and can't resist hooking up with secretaries and ward sisters. Gordon treats his life as a case history - given this personality, what kind of career will a talented, intelligent man have? Gordon also knows how burns cases were treated in the war, and how fashions in treatment and surgery came and went. As in any life, some people are a constant, though their relationships with the main character change with the decades. Are the seven ages of man capable of understanding each other? asks Trevose and the author. Gordon is highly readable, with a gift for understanding people. He shows how people really behaved during the war. Think sex was invented in the 60s? These books will put you wise. Read them, then seek out his other medical novels (other than the excellent Doctor series). And his collected articles are good too - even funnier than the goings-on at St. Swithin's.
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