The Island Doctor

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Who knew an oven door could serve as an incubator?What do you do with a fracture, a pickup truck, and a portable X-ray machine?Digitalis or kerosene-and-lard poultice?Diaper on the mailbox or the picket fence?As a young medical school graduate, Dr. J. Cameron MacDonald chose to take over a rural practice in the Bay of Fundy. For five years, he was the only medical doctor on the Digby Islands - 40 miles and a ferry ride from the nearest hospital. He looked after 1,200 people, delivered 57 babies at home, with chloroform anaesthesia, told time by the tides, got paid in lobster, and love the life! Show more