Conan Doyle Accomplishments

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During his early writing career, Conan Doyle attempted to become an ophthalmologist. In 1891, he opened his private office in London to start his practice as an eye specialist. However, his medical career was non-success, as Conan Doyle quotes in Memoirs and Adventures, “not one single patient had entered the threshold of my room.” Conan Doyle graduated with a degree in medicine at the University of Edinburgh Medical School in 1881, and in 1885, he accomplished his Doctor Of Medicine degree. Six years later, Doyle sought the study of ophthalmology in Vienna but found the usage of German medical terms at the classes tough to grasp, so he abandoned his studies there. After returning to London from Vienna, he started a small office at 2 Upper