Just Getting There

About the Book

This autobiography by Doctor Lloyd Duncan, a semi-retired surgeon in Tennessee, covers the period of time from his birth in 1931 to the present. The book is replete with accounts of the depression era, the pre WW ll and WW ll years, and high school triumphs and disappointments. Immature, broke, emaciated and homesick at Yale University, he nevertheless earned his letters swimming on some of the school’s greatest teams. He graduated from Yale in 1953 and from medical school in 1956. He vividly describes many humorous, dramatic or tragic events that he subsequently witnessed or experienced as a physician, Naval Flight Surgeon, practicing surgeon, husband, father and grandfather.

About the Author

This is the first, and only novel of W. Lloyd Duncan, a graduate of Yale University, former US Naval Flight Surgeon, and soon to retire from the practice of general surgery in a rural town in Tennessee. An autobiography is in his plans. He resides with his wife and enjoys a professional association with his daughter and her husband, both practicing physicians. A son is a wholesale food broker. But, what he treasures as much as anything is the love of his two beautiful granddaughters.