Snowshoe & lancet

"Two years out of Johns Hopkins Medical School, Robert Ecke found himself at Notre Dame Bay Memorial Hospital on the island of Twillingate, Newfoundland. Practicing a form of frontier medicine, the young doctor was soon treating everything from emergency appendectomies to pregnancies. By boat, dog sled, and snow shoes, he traveled to treat people unable or unwilling to come to the hospital." "Much of the book is taken from excerpts in Dr. Ecke's journal. He describes how he cared for the poverty stricken fishing families, some of who paid only 40 cents per year per person for medical coverage."--BOOK JACKET.