Wake-Up Call Tales from a Frontier Doctor

by Haynes, Sterling

• ISBN13: 9781894759441
• ISBN10: 1894759443
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-03-15
• Publisher: Caitlin Press Inc.

Summary

In Wake-Up Call, Sterling Haynes shares the humorous and sometimes tragic tales of his life as a frontier doctor: a man shoots off his big toe in a drunken binge and then begs the doc to get him to Sunday Mass on time, an inmate swallows a spoon to avoid solitary confinement, an accident with a Murphy bed leaves a man hanging for more than ten hours and an encounter with a tick has devastating consequences.

Author Biography

Raised in Alberta, Sterling Haynes received his medical degree from the University of Alberta. He served as a colonial officer in Nigeria and practised medicine in the Cariboo, Alberta and Alabama. Now retired, he lives in West-bank, BC, and travels extensively in Central America. His articles and poetry have been published in medical journals including The Canadian Journal of Rural Medicine and the Medical Post.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 9
Beginnings	p. 13
Mother Blood	p. 14
Dr. Harry	p. 18
Eliot Cohen Corday, The Famous Cardiologist	p. 27
Tattoos and TB	p. 32
The Jolly Green Giant	p. 37
White Boy	p. 41
The Old Burn Unit	p. 46
Cariboo	p. 49
Bear Facts	p. 50
The Alexis Creek Red Cross Outpost Hospital	p. 55
"Doc, We Got a Problem."	p. 60
Grace Peckinbaa from Chu-Chua	p. 64
Divinity	p. 69
Cut Proud	p. 73
Bloody Business with a Safety Pin	p. 78
A Mickey Finn	p. 81
Tick Paralysis	p. 84
Willoughby	p. 87
Near-Death Experience	p. 90
Thompson - Okanagan	p. 93
Hockey Night in Kamloops	p. 94
The Murphy Bed	p. 100
Tony	p. 104
Leo	p. 107
Spooney	p. 112
The Lucid Interval	p. 116
Doug's Dilemma	p. 119
Mary's Tomatoes	p. 122
Medicine and Mariachi	p. 126
You Never Know	p. 131
Alabama	p. 133
Willie's Jollification	p. 134
Gouch!	p. 138
Bubba Biscuit	p. 141
No Coloured Waiting Rooms Here	p. 145
Jake the Lineman	p. 149
Blue Jeebies	p. 153
Obadiah and Bernice	p. 157
Acknowledgements	p. 160
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