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Doctor in Vanuatu: a memoir

E.A. Ted Freeman

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Description:"The hospital generator and the mainland power failed as I was performing a tracheostomy... after that an engineer mounted a spotlight on a golf buggy and powered it with a car battery."For seven years in the 1960s, Ted Freeman was the doctor in charge of the main practicing and training hospital of the New Hebrides - what is today Vanuatu.In what was th tin-roofed, wooden-walled Paton Memorial Hospital on Iririki Island, now the splendid location of the Iririki Island Resort, he treated everything from broken bones to meningitis, rheumatic fever and TB - when necessary operating with a medical text book propped on a lecturn installed over an archaic ex US-army operating table and by torch-light. Travelling, queasily, in small boats and planes. Ted visited and assisted the even more remote hospitals and clinics on the outer islands. With his endlessly supportive wife, Dorothy, a young family and a largely local support team he worked to heal and mend and to improve the medical skills and resources in what was then a remote corner of the South Pacific. An appointee of the Australian Presbyterian Board of Mission, Ted established a blood bank, updated anaesthetic procedures, taught birth-control - and came a poor second in the Iririki Cup Challenge...This evocative and amusing memoir brings to life the challenges, joys and frustrations of living and working in the Pacific.In 2004 Ted Freeman was awarded the Order of Australia Medal for services to medicine.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Doctor in Vanuatu: a memoir. To get started finding Doctor in Vanuatu: a memoir, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 183

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: IPS Publications, University of the South Pacific

Release: 2006

ISBN: 9820203805

Description: "The hospital generator and the mainland power failed as I was performing a tracheostomy... after that an engineer mounted a spotlight on a golf buggy and powered it with a car battery."For seven years in the 1960s, Ted Freeman was the doctor in charge of the main practicing and training hospital of the New Hebrides - what is today Vanuatu.In what was th tin-roofed, wooden-walled Paton Memorial Hospital on Iririki Island, now the splendid location of the Iririki Island Resort, he treated everything from broken bones to meningitis, rheumatic fever and TB - when necessary operating with a medical text book propped on a lecturn installed over an archaic ex US-army operating table and by torch-light. Travelling, queasily, in small boats and planes. Ted visited and assisted the even more remote hospitals and clinics on the outer islands. With his endlessly supportive wife, Dorothy, a young family and a largely local support team he worked to heal and mend and to improve the medical skills and resources in what was then a remote corner of the South Pacific. An appointee of the Australian Presbyterian Board of Mission, Ted established a blood bank, updated anaesthetic procedures, taught birth-control - and came a poor second in the Iririki Cup Challenge...This evocative and amusing memoir brings to life the challenges, joys and frustrations of living and working in the Pacific.In 2004 Ted Freeman was awarded the Order of Australia Medal for services to medicine.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Doctor in Vanuatu: a memoir. To get started finding Doctor in Vanuatu: a memoir, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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