Dock graduated from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine in 1844, W.E. Horner having acted as his preceptor. Some of Horner's cases are briefly described. Dock served a year as one of the Resident Physicians at Blockley; pasted in at end a "List of operations and remarkable cases in the Blockley Hospital during my residence therein from May 1842 until May 1843."
From the description of Records of events from the commencement of my medical studies in Philadelphia, Oct. 10th, 1840, [by] Geo. Dock. With a record of the principal surgical cases & operations that I have had during my professional life, up to the date of July 1856., 1840-1856. (College of Physicians of Philadelphia). WorldCat record id: 20064672
