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"Doctor in the House"
This is a
comedy book. This book tells about The story follows the fortunes of Simon Sparrow,
starting as a new medical student at the fictional St Swithin's Hospital in
London. His five years of student life, involving drinking, dating women, and
falling foul of the rigid hospital authorities, provide many humorous
incidents. When he has to leave his first choice of lodgings to get away from his
landlady's amorous daughter, he ends up with three amiable but
less-than-shining fellow students as flatmates. Simon's friends cajole him into
a series of disastrous dates, first with a placidly uninterested "Rigor
Mortis", then with Isobel, a woman with very expensive tastes, and finally
with Joy,a nurse at St Swithin's. After a rocky start, he finds he likes Joy a
great deal. Meanwhile, Richard is given an ultimatum by his fiancée Stella graduate
or she will leave him. He buckles down.
After St
Swithin's wins, the other side tries to steal the school mascot, a stuffed
gorilla, resulting in a riot and car chase through the streets of London. Simon
and his friends are almost expelled for their part in this by the humourless
Dean of St Swithin's. When Simon helps Joy sneak into the nurses' residence
after curfew,
he accidentally falls through a skylight. This second incident gets him
expelled, even though he is a short time away from completing his finals. Sir
Lancelot, however, has fond memories of his own student days, particularly of
the Dean's own youthful indiscretion. His discreet blackmail gets Simon reinstated.
In the end, Richard fails (as does Tony), but Stella decides to enroll at St
Swithin's herself so there will be at least one doctor in the family. Simon and
Taffy graduate.
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