Doctor Turner's casebook : based on the BBC hit drama Call the midwife / Stephen McGann, introduction by Heidi Thomas.

In "Call The Midwife", Dr Patrick Turner is an inner-city GP at a crucial crossroads in medical and social history, not only overseeing births across episodes, but also dealing with a multitude of diseases that strike the young and old. Polio, meningitis, measles, scarlet fever and thalidomide have all been meticulously depicted on the show. The book reveals how he dealt with the cases and worked within the newly created National Health Service, as well as lived alongside his East End community.