Download or read book The Vanishing Surgeons written by Graham Lister and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2005-11-21 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Vanishing Surgeons takes the reader into Glasgow Royal Infirmary in Scotland during the nineteen-fifties. The Royal is two hundred years old with a proud history including the first use of antiseptic surgery and the establishment of the first school of nursing, the discipline of which is still apparent. But all is not well in this proud and disciplined hospital. A surgeon disappears without trace, and then another. When they are finally found it is in the least likely of locations. How did it happen? Was it an accident? Or was a young and ambitious surgical intern responsible?