Gordon Ostlere

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Gordon Ostlere (born Gordon Stanley Ostlere on September 15, 1921) is an English surgeon and anaesthetist. Under the pseudonym Richard Gordon, he has written several novels, screenplays for film and television and accounts of popular history, mostly dealing with the practice of medicine. He is perhaps best known for his series of humorous novels, beginning with Doctor in the House, which he later adapted for movies and a long-running BBC television series.

Gordon has worked as anaesthetist at St. Bartholomew's Hospital and later as a ship's surgeon and as assistant editor of the British Medical Journal. He has published several technical books under his own name including Anaesthetics for Medical Students(1949); later published as Ostlere and Bryce-Smith's Anaesthetics for Medical Students in 1989, Anaesthetics and the Patient (1949) and Trichlorethylene Anaesthesia (1953)[1]. In 1952, he left medical practice and took up writing full time. He has an uncredited role as an anesthesiologist in the movie Doctor in the House.

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Gordon's works include

Doctor in the House series
Dr. Gordon's Casebook (diary)
The Alarming History of Medicine : Amusing Anecdotes from Hippocrates to Heart Transplants
An Alarming History of Famous and Difficult Patients: Amusing Medical Anecdotes from Typhoid Mary to FDR
The Private Life of Doctor Cripen
The Private Life of Florence Nightingale
Great Medical Mysteries
Great Medical Discoveries
The Literary Companion to Medicine (editor), 1996