title: The Bedside Book of Final Words
author: Eric Grounds
description: Eric Grounds is a former soldier, Olympic sportsman, High Sheriff and Chairman of the Bench who is now a serial charity director. He lives in Northumberland and is the author of I Bet You That, a humorous look at social history from 1841 to 2000.Bill Tidy MBE was born in 1933. He is a British cartoonist, writer and television personality, known chiefly for his comic strips The Cloggies in Private Eye and The Fosdyke Saga in the Daily Mirror. He has been the subject of This Is Your Life and has appeared on Im Sorry I Havent a Clue.Sir Richard Stilgoe was born in Camberley, Surrey, in 1943. He became famous on the BBC, notably in Nationwide and Thats Life!, and has hosted a number of quiz programmes on Radio 4. He also wrote the lyrics to Starlight Express and co-wrote the lyrics to Phantom of the Opera with Charles Hart.
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  # The Doctor's Dilemma
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Hesba Stretton
  
  
  This page formatted 2004 Munsey's.
  
  
  http://www.munseys.com
  
  PART THE FIRST.
  
  
    
  CHAPTER THE FIRST. AN OPEN DOOR.
  
  
    
  CHAPTER THE SECOND. TO SOUTHAMPTON.
  
  
    
  CHAPTER THE THIRD. A ROUGH NIGHT AT SEA.
  
  
    
  CHAPTER THE FOURTH. A SAFE HAVEN.
  
  
    
  CHAPTER THE FIFTH. WILL IT DO?
  
  
    
  CHAPTER THE SIXTH. TOO MUCH ALONE.
  
  
    
  CHAPTER THE SEVENTH. A FALSE STEP.
  
  
    
  CHAPTER THE EIGHTH. AN ISLAND WITHOUT A DOCTOR.
  
  
  PART THE SECOND.
  
  
    
  CHAPTER THE FIRST. DR. MARTIN DOBREE.
  
  
    
  CHAPTER THE SECOND. A PATIENT IN SARK.
  
  
    
  CHAPTER THE THIRD. WITHOUT RESOURCES.
  
  
    
  CHAPTER THE FOURTH. A RIVAL PRACTITIONER.
  
  
    
  CHAPTER THE FIFTH. LOCKS OF HAIR.
  
  
    
  CHAPTER THE SIXTH. WHO IS SHE?
  
  
    
  CHAPTER THE SEVENTH. WHO ARE HER FRIENDS?
  
  
    
  CHAPTER THE EIGHTH. THE SIXTIES OF GUERNSEY.
  
  
    
  CHAPTER THE NINTH. A CLEW TO THE SECRET.
  
  
    
  CHAPTER THE TENTH. JULIA'S WEDDING-DRESS.
  
  
    
  CHAPTER THE ELEV