Part 1 of the book outlines a series of medical disasters, some fatal, that the author has encountered in his career in Surgery and Pathology. Part 2 gives a definition of medicine and an outline of the philosophy and ethics that underlies the study of medicine. Part 3 then concludes with an outline of the teaching developed at 'The Breakfast Club'. Details are available in the author's autobiography, A Life in Two Lands (Mary Egan Publishing, 2017, ISBN 978-0-473-49447-5)