Doctor Olds of Twillingate : portrait of an American surgeon in Newfoundland
(1994)
By:
Saunders, Gary L
Nonfiction
eBook
Details
PUBLISHED
[United States] : Breakwater Books Ltd, 1994
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DESCRIPTION
1 online resource
ISBN/ISSN
9781550812824 (electronic bk.) MWT12217434, 1550812823 (electronic bk.) 12217434
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
An engrossing story of a bright John Hopkins graduate who fell in love with Newfoundland as a student, and who stayed to become the medical care system in north-eastern Newfoundland for forty years. Crusty, caring and unconventional, Dr. Olds' skill and devotion made him such a folk hero that Newfoundland declared a province-wide Doctor Olds Day. Asked why he came to Twillingate for one year and stayed for forty. Newfoundland's Connecticut Yankee tersely replied, Because I liked it
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