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Richard Gordon (born Gordon Stanley Benton, 15 September 1921 – 11 August 2017, also known as Gordon Stanley Ostlere), [1] was an English ship's surgeon and anaesthetist.As Richard Gordon, Ostlere wrote numerous novels, screenplays for film and television and accounts of popular history, mostly dealing with the practice of medicine.
Archibald Joseph Cronin (19 July 1896 – 6 January 1981), known as A. J. Cronin, was a Scottish physician and novelist. [2] His best-known novel is The Citadel (1937), about a Scottish physician who serves in a Welsh mining village before achieving success in London, where he becomes disillusioned about the venality and incompetence of some doctors.
Ronald Leslie Bassett DSM (10 April 1924 – March 1996) was a British writer and novelist. [1] He wrote numerous works of historical fiction, sometimes under the pseudonym of "William Clive". [2] He received many awards for his medical and pharmaceutical writing.
The Citadel is a novel by A. J. Cronin, first published in 1937, which was groundbreaking in its treatment of the contentious subject of medical ethics.It has been credited with laying the foundation in Britain for the introduction of the NHS a decade later.
Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle KStJ, DL (22 May 1859 – 7 July 1930) was a British writer and physician. He created the character Sherlock Holmes in 1887 for A Study in Scarlet, the first of four novels and fifty-six short stories about Holmes and Dr. Watson. The Sherlock Holmes stories are milestones in the field of crime fiction.
Henry Thompson, (1820–1904) indefatigable British polymath, scholar and novelist; Margaret Todd (c. 1859 – 1918) Scottish writer and doctor who wrote under the pen name Graham Travers and published several novels including Mona Maclean, Medical Student. John Todhunter (1839–1916) Irish poet and playwright
British novelist Martin Amis, who brought a rock ‘n’ roll sensibility to his stories and lifestyle, has died. Amis was the son of another British writer, Kingsley Amis. Martin Amis was a ...
During World War I, she nursed as a VAD, and over the course of the war she wrote three novels. After the war, Ashton studied medicine, qualifying from the London Hospital in 1921 and graduating M.B., B.S. in 1922. [1] She was then a house physician at Great Ormond Street Hospital until she married Arthur Jordan, a barrister, in 1927. After her ...