Fast paced and funny, Chris Howard's tales of a medical life make great reading. The book starts in the 1960s Liverpool of the Beatles, where Chris, still a wet-behind-the-ears medical student throws himself into university life, politics and sailing. He describes the ups and downs of student life, the exams passed and failed, of learning to examine and treat patients and how to deliver babies. After a decade in Liverpool as student and junior doctor, he moves with his young family to the Far East, to Hong Kong, joining a charismatic surgeon and together, through ups and downs, their practice grows and changes. These are tales of life and death, of love and loyalty. A roller-coaster ride of long hours in maternity hospitals and clinics, of travelling in China and Asia, of sailing the South China Sea. These are stories guaranteed to keep the reader hooked to the end. Illustrated with over 50 contemporary photographs.
