Mountain Doctor

Mountain Doctor
Author: LeGette Blythe
Publisher:
Total Pages: 221
Release: 1964
Genre:
ISBN:

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The odyssey of Gaine Cannon, M.D., who has put the philosophy of Albert Schweitzer to work in the remote regions of North Carolina.

The Lady and the Mountain Doctor

The Lady and the Mountain Doctor
Author: Misty M. Beller
Publisher:
Total Pages: 350
Release: 2015-04-28
Genre:
ISBN: 9781954810181

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When a hunting accident dashes a mountain woman's hopes of ever becoming a genteel lady, can God use the new doctor to heal her wounded heart?

Fourth Uncle in the Mountain

Fourth Uncle in the Mountain
Author: Quang Van Nguyen
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 380
Release: 2006-10-03
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780312314316

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Set during the French and American wars in South Vietnam, Fourth Uncle in the Mountain is the true story of an orphan, Quang Van Nguyen, adopted by a sixty-four-year-old monk, Thau, who carries great responsibility for his people as a barefoot doctor. Thau manages against all odds to raise his son to follow in his footsteps and in doing so saves him, as well as a part of Vietnam's esoteric knowledge from the Vietnam holocaust. Thau is wanted by the French regime and occasionally must flee in to the jungle, where he is perfectly at home living among the animals. As wise and resourceful as Thau is, he meets his match in his mischievous son. Quang is more interested in learning Cambodian sorcery and martial arts than in developing his skills and wisdom according to his father's plan. Fourth Uncle in the Mountain is an odyssey of a single-father folk hero and his foundling son in a land ravaged by the atrocities of war. It is a classic story complete with humor, tragedy, and insight, from a country where ghosts and magic are real.

Mountain Rescue Doctor

Mountain Rescue Doctor
Author: Christopher Van Tilburg
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 326
Release: 2007-11-13
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780312358877

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An emergency wilderness physician and member of the Hood River Crag Rats rescue operation presents a series of rescue and recovery stories, offering insight into emergency wilderness medicine and the physical demands placed on its practitioners.

Doc Susie

Doc Susie
Author: Penny Cunningham
Publisher: Filter Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2010
Genre: Colorado
ISBN: 9780865411135

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Susan Anderson was born in 1870 in Indiana and graduated from medical school in 1897 at the University of Michigan. Returning to her family in Cripple Creek, Colorado, she set up a medical practice before moving on to Denver and then Greeley, Colorado. In 1907, seeking a dry and cold climate to improve her tuberculosis condition, she moved to the mountain town of Fraser in Grand County. As her health improved, she began to treat the local people¿and their animals. "Doc Susie," as she came to be known, was the best, and only, doctor in the area for many years. She served as Grand County Coroner during construction of the six-mile long Moffat Tunnel, which replaced the treacherous Moffat Road rail line. At times, she had to go into the tunnel to care for the injured or to retrieve bodies. Doc Susie continued her medical practice until 1956 and died in Denver on April 16, 1960. The "Great Lives in Colorado History" biography series is for grades 3-5. Each book contains full text in both English and Spanish.

Mountain Rescue Doctor

Mountain Rescue Doctor
Author: Christopher Van Tilburg
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Total Pages: 316
Release: 2007-11-13
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1429929316

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A memoir from a doctor who rescues hikers, bikers, rafters, and skiers from the wilderness, as part of the Hood River Crag Rats, the oldest mountain rescue team in the country. Christopher Van Tilburg, MD is an emergency room physician, ski patrol doctor, emergency wilderness physician, and member of the Hood River Crag Rats, the oldest mountain rescue team in the country. When Dr. Van Tilburg's beeper goes off, the call may take him racing up a mountain peak to rescue an injured hiker, into a blizzard to search for missing skiers, or to a mountain airplane crash scene for body recovery. Dr. Van Tilburg's work requires a unique combination of emergency medicine, survival skills, agility, and extreme sports. In Mountain Rescue Doctor, Van Tilburg shares personal stories of harrowing and suspenseful rescues and recoveries, including the recent Mount Hood disaster, which claimed the lives of three climbers. Mountain Rescue Doctor is an exhilarating tour through the perils of nature and medicine.

Pioneer Doctor

Pioneer Doctor
Author: Mari Grana
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 363
Release: 2005-01-01
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 0762751940

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When Mollie stepped off the train in Salt Lake City, Utah, in 1890, she knew she had to start a new life. She'd left her husband and his medical practice behind in Iowa, and with only a few hundred dollars in her pocket and a great deal of pride, she set out to find a new position as a physician. She was offered a job as a doctor to the miners in Bannack, Montana, and thus began her epic adventures as a pioneer doctor, a suffragette, and a crusader for public health reform in the Rocky Mountain West. Pioneer Doctor: The Story of a Woman's Work is the true story of Dr. Mary (Mollie) Babcock Atwater, a medicine woman who found freedom and opportunity in the wide-open spaces of America's frontier west. This remarkable tale has been creatively retold here by her granddaughter, award-winning author Mari Grana. Blending information from historical records as well as interviews with family and friends, the author has reconstructed Mollie's steps into a dramatic narrative that brings to life the doctor's struggles, her accomplishments, and the times in which she lived. Beautifully written and thoroughly researched, this is not just the biography of a fascinating woman. It is also the story of an era when daring women ventured forth and changed history for the rest of us.

My Own Country

My Own Country
Author: Abraham Verghese
Publisher: BookRags
Total Pages: 42
Release: 1998
Genre: AIDS (Disease)
ISBN:

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Mountains Beyond Mountains

Mountains Beyond Mountains
Author: Tracy Kidder
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
Total Pages: 354
Release: 2009-08-25
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0812980557

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “[A] masterpiece . . . an astonishing book that will leave you questioning your own life and political views.”—USA Today “If any one person can be given credit for transforming the medical establishment’s thinking about health care for the destitute, it is Paul Farmer. . . . [Mountains Beyond Mountains] inspires, discomforts, and provokes.”—The New York Times (Best Books of the Year) In medical school, Paul Farmer found his life’s calling: to cure infectious diseases and to bring the lifesaving tools of modern medicine to those who need them most. Tracy Kidder’s magnificent account shows how one person can make a difference in solving global health problems through a clear-eyed understanding of the interaction of politics, wealth, social systems, and disease. Profound and powerful, Mountains Beyond Mountains takes us from Harvard to Haiti, Peru, Cuba, and Russia as Farmer changes people’s minds through his dedication to the philosophy that “the only real nation is humanity.” WINNER OF THE LETTRE ULYSSES AWARD FOR THE ART OF REPORTAGE This deluxe paperback edition includes a new Epilogue by the author

Mountain Rescue Doctor

Mountain Rescue Doctor
Author: Christopher Van Tilburg
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2008-10-28
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 9780312358884

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Christopher Van Tilburg, MD is an emergency room physician, ski patrol doctor, emergency wilderness physician, and member of the Hood River Crag Rats, the oldest mountain rescue team in the country. When Dr. Van Tilburg's beeper goes off, the call may take him racing up a mountain peak to rescue an injured hiker, into a blizzard to search for missing skiers, or to a mountain airplane crash scene for body recovery. Dr. Van Tilburg's work requires a unique combination of emergency medicine, survival skills, agility, and extreme sports. In Mountain Rescue Doctor, Van Tilburg shares personal stories of harrowing and suspenseful rescues and recoveries, including the recent Mount Hood disaster, which claimed the lives of three climbers. Mountain Rescue Doctor is an exhilarating tour through the perils of nature and medicine.