The Surgeon's Apprentice

Second in a multivolume memoir, The Surgeon's Apprentice follows a young John Case through his medical and then surgical training in 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 scans or MRIs, and haematology investigations and laboratory tests were restricted.

Despite the lack of technol...