Doctor, doctor
Iain McGilchrist, 4 October 1984
Doctors: The Lives and Work of GPs
by Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy.
Weidenfeld, 307 pp., £10.95, June 1984,0 297 78382 3 Show More
by Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy.
Weidenfeld, 307 pp., £10.95, June 1984,
Bulimarexia: The Binge/Purge Cycle
by Marlene Boskind-White and William White.
Norton, 219 pp., £12.90, June 1984,0 393 01650 1 Show More
by Marlene Boskind-White and William White.
Norton, 219 pp., £12.90, June 1984,
“... Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy describes the practice of a woman doctor working alone in an inner-city wasteland: The receptionist was replacing a lavatory seat when we arrived. The other had been torn off. So that I could be shown round, a cupboard was unlocked and inside it was a small metal wall safe. Inside that, row upon row of keys. It was like visiting a gaol ... ”
