The following is an excerpt from a KIRKUS INDIE REVIEW of Medical Man.
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..examines the life of Canadian physician and surgeon, Thomas Robert Ross, who practiced medicine in Alberta during the first half of the 20th century
...Webster builds two complex characters, Ross, son of a Hudson's Bay trader posseses a temperament that's suited to life on the vast empty spaces of the mountains and later, prairies. He is an exuberant restless loner. In counterpart is Jennie, a former school teacher, who suffers from fragile health and is given to bouts of depression
...But the background against which their personal saga plays turns out to be the most compelling aspect of this volume...technological changes that move Ross from horseback to automobiles, two world wars that deliver home the wounded and maimed, the gradual introduction of medical breakthroughs...insulin, vaccines, operating room disinfection...a well organized, smoothly presented blend of fact and fiction about a pioneer doctor. Kirkus Reviews
For the complete review go to KirkusReviews:Medical Man
..examines the life of Canadian physician and surgeon, Thomas Robert Ross, who practiced medicine in Alberta during the first half of the 20th century
...Webster builds two complex characters, Ross, son of a Hudson's Bay trader posseses a temperament that's suited to life on the vast empty spaces of the mountains and later, prairies. He is an exuberant restless loner. In counterpart is Jennie, a former school teacher, who suffers from fragile health and is given to bouts of depression
...But the background against which their personal saga plays turns out to be the most compelling aspect of this volume...technological changes that move Ross from horseback to automobiles, two world wars that deliver home the wounded and maimed, the gradual introduction of medical breakthroughs...insulin, vaccines, operating room disinfection...a well organized, smoothly presented blend of fact and fiction about a pioneer doctor. Kirkus Reviews