This novel by new writer and medical doctor Robin Peterson is ground-breaking in so many different ways. It firstly introduces Johnny, who is the most unconventional family doctor you will ever meet. Brilliant but soft-hearted, with an appetite for hard work, attractive women, and pub quiz nights, he treats many poorly patients in his busy Yorkshire practice. When Johnny's lifelong friend Joe develops a fatal illness, his promise to look after him to the end is jeopardised by a malicious complaint. As a result of this, not only may Johnny not be able to care for Joe, but his entire career may be terminated by an angry patient with a grudge. Could he be rescued by Kate, a beautiful young American woman who has moved into the town, or will Johnny be forced to abandon Joe at his time of greatest need? As time runs out for both men, can a frantic search for evidence clear his good name? This enjoyable tale is a million miles away from being a James Herriott type story of grateful people doffing their caps in gratitude to the professionals. It goes much, much deeper than that, and on its way it ventures far into uncharted waters. The first chapters establish the people and the Yorkshire setting. Stay with it, cos these are real people. If you cut them they will bleed! You will get to know them better than your own frineds and family! In the middle part of the book the story develops. Joe Bradford is a truck driver and his loving wife Jenny works in a supermarket. They are nice people, quite unlike the other family in the story, the Hillmans, who have a more sinister side. Both families keep Johnny busy with their medical problems. Into the fabric of the story are weaved large, fascinating glimpses into how family doctoring operates on a day to day basis, and in parts the book is not without humour. It then moves on to give amazing insights into how some diseases are diagnosed (you've always wondered, haven't you?!) and how healthcare teams work together. This is the first novel of its type since the Citadel. The subject matter covers a large area, but it is all acted out on a very manageable and a very human scale. The characters are pleasantly believable and they paint a vivid picture of what it actually feels like to be in such a situation, whether as a nurse, a doctor, or a patient. Maybe this story will do the same for people going to the doctors as Fever Pitch did for football fans. It places you firmly in the middle of the action! The book then moves relentlessly on towards a gripping climax which will leave you moved and breathless. It is exciting and nerve-wracking in equal measure; by the time you have read the closing pages you will be left with a satisfying feeling of a story well told, many insights gained, and the impression that maybe this book gets to areas which much ordinary fiction does not reach. It is aimed mostly at a non-medical readership who will find it satisfying, informative, and enjoyable. On top of that, healthcare professionals may well gain much pleasure from its 270 pages and may even award themselves a very gentle pat on the back whilst at the same time asking themselves why has it taken so long for a thought-provoking contemporary story like this to be written? I cannot recommend this book highly enough. For the price of three drinks in a pub, you will be informed and entertained and you may even get the feeling that, in a small way, your life will never be quite the same again after reading it. Go on, splash out and do it, and then, next time you go the doctors, you can look them in the eye and just, for a split second, ask yourself the very pertinent question "What would Johnny do?!".