A Doctor's Life: Unique Stories
by Close, William T.Edition: Revised
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2001-04-01
Publisher(s): Meadowlark Springs Productions Llc
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Summary
"A Doctor's Life" is an intense and compelling drama that captures all the fear and frustration, trauma, courage and compassion of the author's extraordinary journey. It is the vividly personal account of one doctor who has achieved illuminating insights into the meaning and the limits of medicine in today's world."Adventure is never planned. It is marching through the door of opportunity into the unknown, with enthusiasm." -- Professor Alfredo Vannotti
Table of Contents
| Foreword | p. xi |
| New York City, 1947-1960 | |
| Introduction to New York | p. 3 |
| The Cider Man | p. 6 |
| A Bedside Professor | p. 17 |
| Grand Rounds | p. 19 |
| Answer Promptly | p. 23 |
| The Subway | p. 28 |
| Maria | p. 33 |
| The Little Lady in a Pillbox Hat | p. 41 |
| Africa, 1960-1976 | |
| Introduction to Africa | p. 49 |
| Samuel | p. 58 |
| The Old Surgeon and His Horse | p. 72 |
| Soeur Marie Euphrasie and the Night Mere | p. 80 |
| Gorilla Hormones | p. 84 |
| The Prince and the Prisoner | p. 91 |
| The Delivery of the President's Cousin | p. 99 |
| The Mango Kid | p. 102 |
| The Boy with the Broken Leg | p. 112 |
| Tata Felix | p. 118 |
| Patrice and the Chimp | p. 125 |
| Le Patron | p. 131 |
| Leaving Africa | p. 152 |
| Big Piney, Wyoming, 1976-present | |
| Introduction to Big Piney, Wyoming | p. 165 |
| Into the Rocky Mountains | p. 168 |
| Fred | p. 171 |
| Joyce | p. 176 |
| Chuck | p. 180 |
| Toni | p. 183 |
| Pete | p. 201 |
| John | p. 203 |
| Epilogue | p. 209 |
| Acknowledgments | p. 211 |
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