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On Call in the Arctic: A Doctor's Pursuit of Life, Love, and Miracles in the Alaskan Frontier
Written by Thomas J. Sims
Narrated by Sean Pratt
Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
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About this audiobook
This action-packed memoir tells the story of one doctor's journey to overcome racism, prejudice, and hostility while also trying to treat patients in the Arctic.
Author
Thomas J. Sims
Thomas J. Sims, M.D., is a writer and actor who studied zoology and creative writing at UCLA before attending medical school at Creighton University. After leaving Alaska, he began a private medical practice and began to write and act. He now runs a medical-consultation practice and the website DocTalkToday.com. He lives in Bend, Oregon.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Wow! This has been the best audio book I have listened to in a long time!
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Great book. Definitely worth listening to and well read .
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Really great read!! Much enjoyed! Sad that the book finished.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Excellent book, beautifully written, kept me on the edge of my seat. Excellent reader.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A medical resident faces a choice: potentially get drafted as a field doctor in Vietnam, or move to the Alaskan outback with your family to provide medical care to the people there. Thomas Sims' decision was the latter, and he lived to tell the tale.
From epic snowmobile journeys to improvised midwifery, this book is an collection of incredible/sad/inspiring stories from a year in a remote Alaskan village. Thomas Sims' character shines through as a doctor you would like to have as a neighbor, and the role his wife plays in the story helps to keep it grounded and human. - Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Was a pleasure to listen to. I wouldn't have minded more medical stories in detail.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Well read. Thoroughly enjoyed this.
interesting and keeps you guessing. - Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This is a wonderful book giving insight in to medicine in remote settings. The narrator is the best I have listened to.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The author struck me as complaining too much. He had plenty to complain about, that’s for sure. But he doesn’t add any notes of optimism or reasons to be grateful for anything. Surely he can be grateful for not being sent to Vietnam. If he did express gratitude about that, I might have missed it became I he put me off enough early on to stop listening after only a few chapters.
If you read the part in Corrie Ten Boom’s memoir where she finds her barracks in Ravensbruck concentration camp overrun with fleas, you will also find that she learned to be grateful for them and to praise God in all circumstances, even the brutal circumstances of starvation and terror in the camp. - Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5What a wonderful book!! I felt like I was there experiencing all the exciting events of their lives.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I thoroughly enjoyed this book. Great story telling. Very relatable.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Very interesting light read - About rural Alaska and the practice of medicine in the early 70s. A little “hammed up” at times, but all in all a great read.