What the Doctor Heard Like Mr Truman Capote, Lord Moran
clearly had to wait until his victim was dead before he dared to publish. The result is a gossip columnist's dream, and will no doubt offer prospects of highly profitable employment to all those members of the medical profession who elect to adopt the new medical ethic of the former president of the Royal College of Physicians. No more will public figures be troubled with doctor's bills: instead, the physicians will be bidding against each other for the precious right to put their stethoscopes (complete with transistorised tape-recorders) at the great man's keyhole. Meanwhile. in roughly four weeks time, there will, I predict, appear a battery of informed reviews of Lord Moran's book that will blow him, little black bag and all, to a lucrative limbo. I hope he thinks it was all worth while. Or rather, I hope he doesn't.
NIGEL LAWSON
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