| Summary |
Describes the author's experiences working as the only physician in Nome, Alaska, where he provided care to a frontier town and surrounding Alaska Native villages in very remote areas. |
|
An extraordinary memoir recounting the adventures of a young doctor stationed in the Alaskan bush. The fish-out-of-water stories of Northern Exposure and Doc Martin meet the rough-and-rugged setting of The Discovery Channels Alaskan Bush People in Thomas J. Simss On Call in the Arctic, where the author relates his incredible experience saving lives in one of the most remote outposts in North America. Imagine a young doctor, trained in the latest medical knowledge and state-of-the-art equipment, suddenly transported back to one of the worlds most isolated and unforgiving environmentsNome, 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 only physician 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 {28}outsider. |
| System details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
|
Format: Adobe EPUB eBook. |
|
Format: Kindle Book. |
|
Format: OverDrive Read. |
|
Requires Adobe Digital Editions or Amazon Kindle. |
| Other edition |
Original 9781681778518 |
| Subject |
Sims, Thomas J.
|
|
Physicians -- Alaska -- Nome -- Biography.
|
|
Nome (Alaska)
|
| Genre |
Electronic books.
|
| Other corporate author |
OverDrive, Inc.
|
| ISBN |
9781681779164
|
| STANDARD # |
F8EA8BBB-32F2-4AD3-9730-2B32CF9FA714 OverDrive |
|
