The Lady Doctor is the follow-up companion graphic novel to Ian Williams’s critically acclaimed debut, The Bad Doctor (Myriad, 2014).
Dr Lois Pritchard is a salaried partner at Llangandida Health Centre with Drs Iwan James (subject of The Bad Doctor) and Robert Smith. She also works two days a week in the local Genitourinary Medicine (GUM) clinic. She is 40, currently single, despite the attentions of her many admirers, and is, by her own admission, ‘not very good with relationships’. When her estranged mother makes a dramatic appearance on the scene, demanding a liver transplant, Lois has to confront her loyalties and make some hard decisions.
From the moment we see Dr Lois nipping out behind the surgery for a fag, we know we are in for a behind-the-scenes warts-and-all comedy drama. We meet a patient who regrets the Pinocchio face he had tattooed on his genitals; a man who resorts to desperate measures after being driven mad by his neighbours’ cats, and a prescription drug addict who plans to sue his previous doctors for failing to refuse him the drugs he demanded. Drugs – prescription, recreational, legal (coffee, alcohol, tobacco) – and behaviours and attitudes surrounding them – are a hot topic at Llangandida Health Centre. Hardening government attitudes towards drugs and addiction, and patients’ demands to benefit from the re emergence of psychedelic therapeutic research, don’t make a doctor’s life any easier, but Williams explores current medical issues and ethics with his trademark lightness of touch and wonderfully sly sense of humour, using his own experience as a practising GP to recreate the lives of both patients and health service practitioners.
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IAN WILLIAMS is an award-winning comics artist, physician and writer, now living in Brighton. He grew up in the north of England and studied Medicine in Cardiff before moving to North Wales, where he lived for over twenty years, having studied Medicine, Medical Humanities and Fine Art. The great-grandson of Brynfab, a farmer, ‘litterateur’ and Eisteddfod-winner famous for writing poetry on the cowshed walls, Ian worked as a doctor while developing a side career as a painter and printmaker, exhibiting nationally and internationally. His attempt to find common ground between his careers as artist and physician led to the creation of his own comic strips in 2007, using the nom de plume ‘Thom Ferrier’ to maintain some anonymity while still working in rural general practice. He founded the website Graphic Medicine.org, coining the term now applied to the interaction between comics and healthcare. He created Sick Notes, a series of comic strips for The Guardian and is joint Series Editor for the Graphic Medicine list by Penn State University Press, US publishers of The Bad Doctor. Both books have now been optioned for a TV series by Canadian entertainment company e One.
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