"It's the medical equivalent of All Creatures Great and Small" -- Patrick Taylor. New York Times & USA Today best-selling author of the Irish Country Doctor series

"Funny and moving stories . If you're tired of misery lit, read this and feel better. This book has something to say to today's trainees." -- The Obstetrician and Gynaecologist

"The description of life as a medical student and young doctor is authentic, told with humour and laced with direct quotes from colleagues and patients, often in the colourful Belfast vernacular ...A valuable account of a system of training that is now part of history" -- Ulster Medical Journal

"Told as a series of patient stories... In the virtual and technology-driven world we inhabit, this gentle volume reminds us that, at the core, medicine is about people" -- Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology Canada

"It reads as tales given after dinner at the fireside. Humorous and self-deprecating, but at times serious and poignant, describing the limits of 1960s medicine. A good read, with education and thought thrown in" -- British Society for the History of Medicine