Books tagged: medical care abroad

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Travelin' Trots: Diary of an Accidental Medical Tourist    by Mary Anne Lonze
Price: Free! 7590 words. Published on May 20, 2010. .

35,000 feet over the Amazon jungle Mary Anne gets slammed with a debilitating gastrointestinal bug . Seven hours later she lands in a foreign country where she doesn't speak the language. Now she has to quickly find medical help. A travel writer and nurse, she documents the process and what it really feels like to be sick on the road.
Quarantine on the Black Nile    by Michael Angel
Price: $1.49 USD. 18640 words. Published by Banty Hen Publishing on June 4, 2011. .

Eco-tourist Jonah Brooks stumbles into a nightmare as he’s snared in an East African quarantine zone. Black Nile hemorrhagic virus rampages through the Malindi rain forest like a feral beast. It burns through the human population with a terrifying kill rate; and everyone in the medical group sent to study it lies dead in their camp. It’s not quite the tour package that Jonah signed up for.
A Pain in the Toenails    by Melissa Yuan-Innes
Price: Free! 1840 words. Published by Olo Books on July 15, 2011. .

Ah, the innocence of medical school. This is a story from my third year of clinical clerkship, when I started rotating through the hospital wards. One patient taught me about ulcerative colitis...and a few other things. You can also find this essay in my book, The Most Unfeeling Doctor in the World and Other True Tales from the Emergency Room.
No Air    by Melissa Yi
Price: $1.99 USD. 18410 words. Published by Olo Books on August 7, 2011. .

Dr. Valerie Chia strides into St. Joseph's emergency room expecting the usual Montreal Monday morning chaos. But when the other day doctor goes AWOL and a patients crashes, Val's up the creek, in a handbasket, even before she lets resident Dr. Hope Sze try the emergency airway... Debut episode (half-hour pilot script) of a medical radio drama featuring Dr. Hope Sze.
Code Blues    by Melissa Yi
Price: $5.99 USD. 103120 words. Published by Olo Books on August 15, 2011. .

Dr. Hope Sze rolls into Montreal with three simple goals: 1) survive her family medicine residency, 2) try _pain au chocolat_, 3) go on a date sometime in the next two years. Then she discovers a doctor's body in the locker room. When she tries to uncover his killer, two men are more than willing to help. But the one man with charm to burn, the one man who makes her melt, has zero alibi.