DOCTOR IN LOVE BY RICHARD GORDON IN SOUTH AFRICA

You can't go about the country falling in love with girls at your age,' Dr Gordon's friend Grimsdyke tells him.  'You're not an impoverished medical student any more.  The predatory misses will expect you to marry them.'  But Gordon soon discovers that a busy general practitioner needs a wife as much as a stethoscope.  As his other friend, Tony Benskin, observes, 'The patients don't like you messing about with their wives unless you've got one of your own at home.'  And of course there has to be someone to answer the telephone, open the door, keep the NHS records, cook the dinner, do the laundry - and protect him from some of his female patients. Dr Gordon's only worry is that the right girl will turn up.  She does, but only after an unfortunate love affair which should illustrate to patients the dangers of falling for the same nurse as their doctor.  He proposes, is accepted, and soon comes to the conclusion that a couple who can survive the preparations for their wedding can overcome pretty much everything else in their married life to come.  Despite relatives and real estate, solicitors and salesmen, bridesmaids and builders, and the doubtful though undoubted assistance of his friends, Dr Gordon finally marries the girl - but only just. Hard cover, fair condition.  188 pages, all intact.