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Memoirs of a Cape Breton Doctor

出版	McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1975
ISBN	00707775949780070777590
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=0QyDQgAACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋"Dr. MacMillan began his practice as a country doctor in 1928, serving the area around Baddeck, Cape Breton Island. In the course of his forty years of service, he travelled the length and breadth of this island, through all sorts of weather, by every imaginable conveyance, administering medical aid where and when it was needed. More than any other region in North America, Cape Breton retains its Scottish heritage and character. In this lively tradition, stories are spun with delicate expertise, warmth and originality, and few rural GPs could tell of their experiences with more colour and charm than Dr. C. Lamont MacMillan. The events about which he writes cover a time span of more than a hundred years- most of them based on Dr. MacMillan's own experiences, some of them on the recollections of his oldest patient and friends. When Dr. MacMillan's story begins, conditions in rural Cape Breton were hardly those for which a young medical graduate was prepared. The islanders, who had been accustomed to having medical attention perhaps twice in their lifetime, slowly shed their suspicions and gave up their folk remedies. The result was a swing to the other extreme: every pain became an emergency requiring the doctor's presence. For Dr. MacMillan, getting there and back was often a greater problem than curing the ailment. Weather conditions and the geography of the island made travel hazardous and difficult. The automobile, a good enough mode of transport in town, was useless on country roads and unmarked lanes. Calls at distances of sixty or eighty or a hundred miles had to be made by horse and sleigh or cart. Supplies coming from the cities were often lost in transit or hopeless delayed. Unreliable communication systems created havoc in times of urgency."- Publisher.