SECRETS FROM THE BLACK BAG Terrific and original ... deserves wide celebration ... you might be reminded of James Herriott ... Butler stands on the shoulders of writers like William Carlos Williams
... where the science that is medicine bumps thrillingly against human fear, passion, despair and hope. There is a whiff of pipe-smoke on colonial balconies, a sepia-tinted glimmer of grateful patients and be-chauffeured physicians. There is no political correctness, yet to be invented ...
Secrets from the Black Bag presents doctors hurrying through the night, from the early to late 20th century, from Pakistan to Tanganyika, from Scotland to New Zealand, all over the planet. They carry little black bags into the private worlds of people struggling with the business of living and dying and trying to make sense of things.
Companion volume to Black Bag Moon, Doctors' Tales from Dusk to Dawn
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... where the science that is medicine bumps thrillingly against human fear, passion, despair and hope. There is a whiff of pipe-smoke on colonial balconies, a sepia-tinted glimmer of grateful patients and be-chauffeured physicians. There is no political correctness, yet to be invented ...
Secrets from the Black Bag presents doctors hurrying through the night, from the early to late 20th century, from Pakistan to Tanganyika, from Scotland to New Zealand, all over the planet. They carry little black bags into the private worlds of people struggling with the business of living and dying and trying to make sense of things.
Companion volume to Black Bag Moon, Doctors' Tales from Dusk to Dawn
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- A perplexed forester in the Scottish Highlands who confronts love for the first time, gun in hand
- A rebellious London nurse who stitches up an arrogant surgeon near the Benin border
- Mrs Babbadge, whose anosmia inures her to the mouldering stench of the home she shares with a rotting husband and two frenetic terriers
- A 5-year-old who has died alone in a hovel in the middle of the night, killed by the negligence of a psychopathic stepfather
Secrets from the Black Bag is now available as an ebook through
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Download it on your Kindle, iPad, word processor, Sony Reader, Kobo, Nook, palm-reading device and many more..
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BLACK BAG MOON
Sophisticated, not what I expected
Valerie Brown, Australia, AO
Black Bag Moon: Doctors’ Tales from Dusk to Dawn drives us straight to the heart of human communication and collides head-on with the business of living and dying and the things that matter, those impacting small and large issues of daily life like neighbours and deluded loved ones, difficult patients and bureaucrats. We even encounter one of the casualties, a doctor’s wife.
General readers and healthcare professionals alike will enjoy a journey to the place ‘where the science that is medicine bumps thrillingly against human fear, passion, despair and hope’, as Dr Alec Logan said in his Foreword to Secrets from the Black Bag.
A companion volume to Secrets from the Black Bag, Black Bag Moon, Doctors’ Tales from Dusk to Dawn is based on interviews with general practitioners across the globe. This fictional work probes different aspects of medical practice, like euthanasia, indigenous health, Alzheimer’s disease and how to treat patients one just doesn’t like – and does so in the planet’s cities and suburbs and such unexamined locations as
* a cruise ship in the Caribbean Sea
* a remote village in the west of Scotland
* an island off an island off an island in one of the farthest flung corners of the British Empire
* an Australian mining town
* the Australian Outback
* a naval vessel in the Indian Ocean
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BMJ Medical Humanities
Yale Journal for Humanities in Medicine
Family Medicine
Medical Encounters
Australian Family Physician
Australian Doctor
NYU School of Medicine
Sophisticated, not what I expected
Valerie Brown, Australia, AO
Black Bag Moon: Doctors’ Tales from Dusk to Dawn drives us straight to the heart of human communication and collides head-on with the business of living and dying and the things that matter, those impacting small and large issues of daily life like neighbours and deluded loved ones, difficult patients and bureaucrats. We even encounter one of the casualties, a doctor’s wife.
General readers and healthcare professionals alike will enjoy a journey to the place ‘where the science that is medicine bumps thrillingly against human fear, passion, despair and hope’, as Dr Alec Logan said in his Foreword to Secrets from the Black Bag.
A companion volume to Secrets from the Black Bag, Black Bag Moon, Doctors’ Tales from Dusk to Dawn is based on interviews with general practitioners across the globe. This fictional work probes different aspects of medical practice, like euthanasia, indigenous health, Alzheimer’s disease and how to treat patients one just doesn’t like – and does so in the planet’s cities and suburbs and such unexamined locations as
* a cruise ship in the Caribbean Sea
* a remote village in the west of Scotland
* an island off an island off an island in one of the farthest flung corners of the British Empire
* an Australian mining town
* the Australian Outback
* a naval vessel in the Indian Ocean
BUY Amazon Amazon UK Bookshops Radcliffe Publishing
REVIEWS Amazon US & UK
BMJ Medical Humanities
Yale Journal for Humanities in Medicine
Family Medicine
Medical Encounters
Australian Family Physician
Australian Doctor
NYU School of Medicine
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