The Honourable Doctor

The story of James Lambert who, two hundred years ago, taking on the nepotism and unaccountability of the medical establishment, helped change doctors and hospitals forever but died young, reviled and unrecognised. Westminster Hall, 13 December 1828. Midnight. Thousands are massed outside. Newspapers are holding their presses.James Lambert, a young apothecary-surgeon, has accused a leading surgeon at Guy's Hospital of killing a patient. Never before has a doctor's competence been challenged in a court.What drove him to take on the medical establishment, risking everything he'd always wanted?For two centuries his contribution to the making of modern health care has lain unrecognised.This novel, based on true events, tells his extraordinary story.

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