Flying Doctor of the Philippines / Woolsey, Raymond H / (HB/1972-1972/NDJ/B+/USED)

*Condition Note: Book is very sturdy with minor wear on cover/corners and clean.*

Only occasionally does there cross our path someone we would escribe as an "unforgettable character." For those who know William C. Richli, M.D., he is such a person. Dr. Richli trained as a surgeon but he has another love--mechanical engineering. He has combined the two aptitudes in effective and sometimes unusual ways. He is also a pilot, a "ham" radio enthusiast, a logger, a musician of sorts, and a philanthropist. Above all, he is an individualist.

Bill Richli went with his family to the Philippines to be medical director of the Manila Sanitarium and Hospital, a Seventh-day Adventist institution. After rebuilding and equipping the bombed-out hospital (he was known to come into the examining room wearing a welding mask instead of a surgical mask) he resigned his post in order to work in a large capacity--as a self-supporting missionary surgeon. Rounding up surplus army equipment, he put together a portable surgery unit that he took to far-flung quarters of the archipelago. When he bought a small army plane he was dubbed "an angel of mercy, complete with wings."

Jungle medicine, feats of ingenuity, self-sacrifice, transoceanic solo flights, plane crashes--all these are to be found in Flying Doctor of the Philippines, a story told objectively yet with sensitivity and humor.

CONTENTS 

Prologue
1 The Urge to Serve
2 From the Ruins of War
3 Doctor in Grease Pants
4 Island Interlude
5 A New Horizon
6 The Portable Hospital
7 Surgery in the Boondocks
8 The Doctor Takes Wings
9 What Goes Up Must Come Down
10 Never Say Can't
11 To Save a College
12 Special Delivery
13 The Dignity of Labor
14 Doctor, Sawyer, Engine Chief
15 Keep a Sharp Scalpel
16 Lost--One Airplane
17 The Hydro
18 Wings Westward
19 Red Tape and Ice Water
20 Another "Lone Eagle"
21 Aboard the Flying Hope
22 Campus Guest
23 No More "Hope"
24 In Pursuit of a Dream
25 Weary Not in Well-doing
Epilogue

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