''Doctor in the Nest'' is a 1979

comedy novel A comic novel is a novel-length work of humorous fiction. Many well-known authors have written comic novels, including P. G. Wodehouse, Henry Fielding, Mark Twain, and John Kennedy Toole. Comic novels are often defined by the author's literary ...

by the British writer Richard Gordon.Pringle p.227 Part of the long-running ''Doctor'' series, it finds Sir Lancelot Spratt struggling against cuts in the

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which leaves his hospital in bad shape.

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* Pringle, David. ''Imaginary People: A Who's who of Fictional Characters from the Eighteenth Century to the Present Day''. Scolar Press, 1996. 1979 British novels Novels by Richard Gordon Comedy novels Novels set in hospitals Heinemann (publisher) books {{1970s-comedy-novel-stub