Table of Contents

    7 . . . Foreword
    9 . . . Preface
  14 . . . Tribute to the Staff at the Royal Columbian Hospital
  17 . . . Personal Chronology

  19 . . . Chapter 1: Two Medics Named "Bill"
  34 . . . Chapter 2: Doctors' Devices, Cardiologists' Contraptions
  58 . . . Chapter 3: Groin Pains
  79 . . . Chapter 4: Paper Pushing and Hospital Realities
101 . . . Chapter 5: The Emerg
124 . . . Chapter 6: Psychiatry and Mind Games?
153 . . . Chapter 7: At first I wanted to be a veterinarian
194 . . . Chapter 8: Hobbies
221 . . . Chapter 9: Medical Buddies
251 . . . Chapter 10: The Dark Side of Medicine
275 . . . Chapter 11: Obstetrics — A Tough Job
296 . . . Chapter 12: Crabs: Little, Big & Crabby
307 . . . Chapter 13: Do doctors cry?
322 . . . Chapter 14: The Wrong Side of the Bed Sheets
343 . . . Chapter 15: The Business of Medicine

357 . . . Acknowledgements
359 . . . Index