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2018-05-22
On Call in the Arctic: A Doctor’s Pursuit of Life, Love, and Miracles in the Alaskan Frontier
Thomas J. Sims
Pegasus Books
Sep. 2018
304pp
書籍編號:
03-10458
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● 內文簡介

The fish-out-of-water stories of "Northern Exposure" and "Doc Martin" meet the rough-and-rugged setting of "The Discovery Channel's Alaskan Bush People" in Thomas J. Sims's ON CALL IN THE ARCTIC, wherein the author relates his incredible experience saving lives in one of the most remote outposts on the North American continent. Imagine: a young doctor, trained in the latest, cutting-edge medical knowledge and state-of-the-art equipment, suddenly transported back to one of the world¹s most isolated and unforgiving environment—Nome, Alaska.

Dr. Sims' plans to become a pediatric surgeon drastically changed when, on the eve of being drafted into the Army to serve as a M.A.S.H. surgeon in Vietnam, he was offered a commission in the U.S. Public Health for assignment in Anchorage, Alaska. In Anchorage, Dr. Sims was scheduled to act as Chief of Pediatrics at the Alaska Native Medical Center. Life changed, along with his military orders, when he learned he was being transferred from Anchorage to work as the onlyphysician in Nome. There, he would have the awesome responsibility of rendering medical care under archaic conditions to the population of this frontier town plus thirteen Eskimo villages in the surrounding Norton Sound area. And he would do it alone with little help and support.

All the while, he was pegged as both an ‘outsider' (if you're not from there, you'll never be an insider) and an employee of the much-derided federal government.I n order to do his job, Dr. Sims had to overcome racism, cultural prejudices, and hostility from those who would like to see him sent packing. ON CALL IN THE ARCTIC reveals the thrills and the terrors of frontier medicine, where Dr. Sims must rely upon his instincts, improvise, and persevere against all odds in order to help his patients on the icy shores of the Bering Sea.

 

● 作者簡介

Thomas J. Sims, M.D. is a writer and actor who studied Zoology and Creative Writing at UCLA before attending medical school at Creighton University. After leaving Alaska, he began a private medical practice and began to write and act. He now runs a medical consultation practice and the website DocTalkToday.com. He lives in Bend, Oregon.

 

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