"If Dolly can write reports that rocket her patients up the list... then, with my gift for prose I'm sure I can halve her waiting times. Plenty of adjectives and a good plot; that's the secret... Voila! A night's work, a riveting read and months of suffering saved..." "It was a dark and stormy night...." New Zealand Doctor, 20 July 2002

"If Dolly can write reports that rocket her patients up the list... then, with my gift for prose I'm sure I can halve her waiting times. Plenty of adjectives and a good plot; that's the secret... Voila! A night's work, a riveting read and months of suffering saved..." "It was a dark and stormy night...." New Zealand Doctor, 20 July 2002
Date
2002
Reference
DCDL-0009046
Description

"Just Practising" cartoon strip. Shows Doctor Hal writing a report similar to Dolly's which shortened the length of time on the the waiting list for surgery. He stays up all night writing. In the morning Dolly reads his report which begins "It was a dark and stormy night...".

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Walker, Malcolm, 1950- :Digital cartoons / Digital cartoons published in New Zealand Doctor
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1 digital cartoon(s), Works of art, Cartoons (Commentary), Digital images
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"If Dolly can write reports that rocket her patients up the list... then, with my gift for prose I'm sure I can halve her waiting times. Plenty of adjectives and a good plot; that's the secret... Voila! A night's work, a riveting read and months of suffering saved..." "It was a dark and stormy night...." New Zealand Doctor, 20 July 2002. Walker, Malcolm, 1950- :Digital cartoons. Ref: DCDL-0009046. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. /records/22335255

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