The Lady Doctor - Ian Williams

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Title: The Lady Doctor
Author: Ian Williams
Genre: Graphic novel
Rating: 3.5/5
# pages: 264
Date read: April, 2019

Dr Lois Pritchard is a salaried partner at Llangandida Health Centre with Drs Iwan James (subject of The Bad Doctor) and Robert Smith. She also works two days a week in the local Genitourinary Medicine (GUM) clinic. She is 40, currently single, despite the attentions of her many admirers, and is, by her own admission, ‘not very good with relationships’. When her estranged mother makes a dramatic appearance on the scene, demanding a liver transplant, Lois has to confront her loyalties and make some hard decisions.


Officially a sequel or follow-up, but I think it stood just fine on its own. I'm not entirely sure whether it's fictional or not though! It was placed under memoirs at the bookshop, but the back blurb definitely came across as fiction.

Never mind. Either way it was a really interesting read about all the ups and downs of the life of a doctor. I liked that it wasn't romanticized - it was clear it was hard, messy, frustrating work, and that the Lady Doctor definitely wasn't anywhere near a saint, but a human being with all her own failings.