Ten of the best good doctors in literature

For the Guardian, in 2010 John Mullan named ten of the best good doctors in literature.

One doctor on the list:

Henry Perowne

Perowne is a noted neurosurgeon and protagonist of Ian McEwan's Saturday. Only slightly less accomplished than Patrick O'Brian's] Maturin, this squash player and bon vivant has his comfortable world threatened by a criminal psychopath – whose life he saves in a properly doctorly fashion.

Read about another doctor on the list.

Saturday also appears among the twenty best 9/11 books, Chibundu Onuzo's top ten megacities in fiction, Jimmy So's five best 9/11 novels, and on Mullan's list of ten of the best prime ministers in fiction.

Also see Mullan's list of ten of the best fictional bad doctors.

--Marshal Zeringue