Research Catalog

Title

The flying doctor / Dave Baldwin.

Author

Baldwin, Dave, 1957-

Publication

• Auckland : Penguin Random House New Zealand, 2016.
• ©2016

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Details

Description

287 pages : colored illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

"For the first time, Dave Baldwin, known throughout the backcountry as The Flying Doctor, shares his tales from life lived at full-throttle. From his early years struggling with dyslexia to graduating from med school, from learning to fly and joining the New Zealand Air Force to becoming a cardiologist at Palmerston North Hospital and setting up a general practice in Bulls, Dave's early life was certainly a life less ordinary. Later on he started the 'Not So Royal Flying Doctor Service', a service for the rural aviation community based at remote airstrips and farms in the backcountry, which has paved the way for a life combining his two passions: high-country flying and hunting."--Publisher information.

Subject

• Baldwin, Dave, 1957-
• Baldwin, Dave, 1957- > Career in medicine
• Physicians (General practice) > New Zealand > Biography
• Air pilots > New Zealand > Biography
• Aeronautics in medicine
• Air pilots
• Physicians
• Pilots
• New Zealand

Genre/Form

• Biographies
• Autobiographies
• Autobiography

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction -- 1. Yearning for freedom -- 2. Time to get me some schooling -- 3. I culd not spel dokta but now I am one -- 4. Horsepital here we come -- 5. The soldier in me -- 6. My destiny is in Bulls -- 7. Freedom is coming -- 8. The Bulls Flying Doctor Service is born -- 9. Becoming respectable -- 10. Maturing as an organisation -- 11. A few West Coast tales -- 12. Trials and tribulations -- 13. Au revoir, Marc -- 14. Beyond the material world -- Epilogue.

ISBN

• 9781775538929
• 1775538923
• 9781775538936 (canceled/invalid)

OCLC

• 956685334
• SCSB-10544787

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library