All in a Doctors Day

Peter Sykes lifts the lid on the good, the bad and the ugly in the NHS, based on real-life situations from his 40 years experience at the sharp end of medical practice.

Some of these stories will make you laugh, a few will make you cry and others have a surprising twist in the tail.

They feature patients, doctors and nurses, blood, sweat and toil, life and death, heartache and joy.