Doctor on the Boil

{{short description|1970 novel by Richard Gordon}}

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| author = Richard Gordon

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| country = United Kingdom

| language = English

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| genre = Comedy

| publisher = Heinemann

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| preceded_by = Love and Sir Lancelot

| followed_by = Doctor on the Brain

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Doctor on the Boil is a 1970 comedy novel by the British writer Richard Gordon.Pringle p.227 Bored with his retirement, Sir Lancelot Spratt returns to St Swithan's Hospital to resume his work and disturbs almost everyone else there.