AusDoc’s favourite medical-related book is called Dr Dog.

While its target audience is children aged about eight, and it does involve fart jokes, it offers an unnerving insight into the real life of medical practitioners.

The main plot involves Dr Dog’s attempts to attend a medical conference in Brazil when he is suddenly interrupted by the Guimboyles, the family with whom he has established a longitudinal therapeutic relationship, who decide they can’t survive without him.

And so, he returns to rescue them from their ailments: nits, tickly tonsils, worms and a confronting case of aged-related flatulence.