New PDF release: Compassionate Steel: The memoirs of Wylie Gibbs, surgeon,

By Wylie Gibbs

ISBN-10: 0648074579

ISBN-13: 9780648074571

Wylie Gibbs relates actually attention-grabbing vignettes from his fifty years as a physician in Australia, Britain, Saudi Arabia and Fiji.

One incident pertains to his therapy of the overdue major Minister Harold Holt, forty-eight hours earlier than his disappearance. His dialogue of this episode, illuminated via his shut dating with Mr Holt, must throw additional gentle upon this enduring secret. Mr Gibbs also highlights the superb advances in medication which were made in his lifetime and strains his personal occupation as student, intern, flying health care professional and advisor doctor, with a quick interlude as Member of Parliament.

Of particular curiosity are his remedies of 3 participants of 'royalty': a local Torres Strait 'king', the second-in-line to the Saudi throne and one other member of Saudi royalty.

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