Review: "London Call-Out" by Alex Rudd

London Call-Out by Alex Rudd
Published February 2020 via Lume Books
★★

Perfectly serviceable—if a bit short—three-star set of stories about working as an out-of-hours GP. Knocked it down a star for the xenophobic soliloquies about how foreign doctors don't speak good enough English and thus shouldn't be allowed to work in the UK.

As with any genre or subgenre, I find British medical memoirs to be hit or miss, but this particular subgenre seems to carry an unusually high proportion of low- or high-key xenophobes. Perhaps it's not surprising, because some of the authors Rudd cites as inspirations for his own work are among the more problematic of the doctor-writers I've read, but disappointing at best.