Richard Gordon is a pen name used by English surgeon and anaesthetist Gordon Ostlere, who has written numerous novels, screenplays, and popular history accounts dealing with medicine. He is most famous for a long-running series of comic novels about medical students and doctors starting with "Doctor in the House", which was later adapted into a 1954 film. Gordon worked as an anaesthetist at St. Bartholomew's Hospital in London.

2. Richard Gordon is the pen name used by Gordon
Ostlere (born Gordon Stanley Ostlere on 15 September 1921),
an English surgeon and anaesthetist. As Richard Gordon,
Ostlere has written numerous novels, screenplays for film and
television and accounts of popular history, mostly dealing with
the practice of medicine.

3. He is most famous for a long
series of comic novels on a
medical theme starting
with Doctor in the House

4. Gordon worked as an
anaesthetist at St.
Bartholomew's
Hospital (where he
was a medical
student)

6. Doctor novels
 Doctor in the House. London: Joseph. 1952.
 Doctor at Sea. London: Joseph. 1953.
 Doctor at Large. London: Joseph. 1955.
 Doctor in Love. London. Joseph. 1957
 Doctor and Son. London: Joseph. 1959.
 Doctor in Clover. London: Joseph. 1960.
 Doctor on Toast. London: Joseph. 1961.
 Doctor in the Swim. London. Joseph. 1962.
 Doctor on the Boil. Heinemann. 1970.
 Doctor on the Brain. Heinemann. 1972.
 Doctor in the Nude. Heinemann. 1973.
 Doctor on the Job. Heinemann. 1976.
 Doctor in the Nest. Heinemann. 1979.
 Doctor's Daughters. Heinemann. 1981.
 Doctor on the Ball. Hutchinson. 1985.
 Doctor in the Soup. Century. 1986.

7. The film
adaptation
of Doctor in
the House was
released in
1954, two
years after
the book