The Citadel (Classic Reprint) (Hardcover)

from jtck121166

A good, old-fashioned novel (in the best sense): a story of engaging people doing interesting things, well-told. The theme is the public health in the UK before the 1948 Act which introduced the National Health service. Incompetence and corruption amongst the medical class are exposed; our hero, ...

from PilgrimJess

"If we go on trying to make out that everything's wrong outside the profession and everything is right within, it means the death of scientific progress." First published in 1937 and set during the interwar years 'The Citadel' shines a light on the medical establishment in Britain at the time th...

from shefukul

I was completely shocked when Andrew's wife died. One of my favorite books.

from charlie68

A number of the stories in the book are similar to stories in the autobiographical Adventures in Two Worlds. About a doctor and his life just starting out in the mines of south Wales to classy West End London. Characters could use a little more depth especially the main ones. A fairly weak plot u...

from kellyn

This is an exceptionally engaging story of a young, idealistic doctor as he embarks on his medical practice. Dr. Manson joins a practice in a remote, isolated Welsh mining town. It is a baptism by fire. His supervising physician is incapacitated by a stroke and this doctor's miserly wife withhold...