The author began his medical career at Glasgow University in the 1930's. As a student his training ground was the rough, dilapidated area of the Gorbals where he became a welcome visitor to the struggling families of the old tenements. He graduated in 1939 at the same time as his future wife, Janet, a little redhead he had first met over a cadaver in a surgical anatomy class. This is a delightful, human book, a kaleidoscope of life amid the stress of war and its aftermat