The Surgeon's Apprentice: From medical school to specialist surgeon and the many interesting characters met along the way.

by John Case

Second in a multivolume memoir.A Surgeon's Apprentice follows a young John Case through his medical and then surgical training an era when penicillin was a new wonder drug.John's experience training at two universities and eight hospitals during his apprenticeship documents a time when the scalpel was the main surgical instrument, endoscopes were primitive, There were no CAT scansor MRIs haematology investigations and laboratory tests were restricted. Despite the lack of technology---or perhaps because of it---there was a more personal side to medicine, as every patient had a personal GP who knew him. The GPs ran twice daily surgeries and even visited---in their own homes---those unable to attend the surgery. Tragic and poignant in places, up roaringly funny in others this memoir provides a glimpse of a way of teaching and living that is now lost to us. John's wonderfully engaging voice brings his adventures (and misadventures) alive in the pages of The Surgeon's Apprentice and will have readers cringing along with him as he settles into "the Coffin at night and struggling beside him as he questions the rationality, morality and even legality of the choices he must make in treating his patients.

250 pages, Kindle Edition

Published April 27, 2021

About the author

Writing as 'John Case,' Jim and Carolyn Hougan are The New York Times best-selling authors of The Genesis Code and five other thrillers.
An award-winning investigative reporter, Jim is the author of The Magdalene Cipher, a novel of conspiracy, and two non-fiction books about the CIA: Spooks and Secret Agenda.
Carolyn is the author of four novels, including The Romeo Flag.

The name John Case is actually that of Carolyn's grandfather ( John F Case), a journalist and author of Tom of Peace Valley (Boy Knight of Agriculture).