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Richard Gordon


(Gordon Ostlere)
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Richard Gordon was the pen name used by Gordon Ostlere, an English surgeon and anaesthetist. As Richard Gordon, Ostlere wrote several novels, screenplays for film and television and accounts of popular history, mostly dealing with the practice of medicine. He is most famous for a long series of comic novels on a medical theme starting with Doctor in the House, and the subsequent film, television and stage adaptations. His The Alarming History of Medicine was published in 1993, and he followed this with The Alarming History of Sex.
 


Genres: General Fiction
 
Series
Doctor
   Doctor in the House (1952)
   Doctor at Sea (1953)
   Doctor at Large (1955)
   Doctor in Love (1957)
   Doctor and Son (1959)
   Doctor in Clover (1960)
   Doctor on Toast (1961)
   Doctor in the Swim (1962)
   Doctor on the Boil (1970)
   Doctor on the Brain (1972)
   Doctor in the Nude (1973)
   Doctor on the Job (1976)
   Doctor in the Nest (1979)
   Doctor's Daughters (1981)
   Doctor Gordon's Casebook (1982)
   Doctor on the Ball (1985)
   Doctor in the Soup (1986)
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Novels
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Collections
   Nursing Stories (1979) (with others)
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