Follow the Green Line

About the Book

This is a fiction-based-on-fact short novel that I have been aching to write. It concerns the lives, loves and emotions of young physicians during one marker year of their career, internship.

But the uniqueness of the story lies in the setting, a university charity hospital in a large southern city during the mid-1950s. A different, fascinating medical and social world awaits you. Come along--share the humor and drama with our interns as they are whisked through the various medical departments of the hospital on their road to professional maturity.

Welcome to John Gaston Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee...

About the Author

Dr. William P. King, retired now after forty-five years of ear, nose and throat surgical and allergy practice, lives in Corpus Christi, Texas. He also had a distinguished career as an avid educator, both as an international lecturer and as the author of numerous textbook chapters and medical journal articles. He has been an active participant in organized medicine, serving in the past as a chairman of the Board of Governors of the American Academy of Otolaryngology/Head and Neck Surgery, and as president of both the Pan-American Allergy Society and the American Academy of Otolaryngic Allergy. From the latter he was presented the President’s Award and the Lifetime Achievement Award. His most current book, Follow the Green Line, is a tongue-in-cheek fiction-based-on-fact novelette chronicling a one-year rotating internship at a large Southern charity hospital in 1955. It’s a ball!