Bibliograph

Deep water dream, a medical voyage of discovery in rural Northern Ontario, Gretchen Roedde

Type

Label

Deep water dream, a medical voyage of discovery in rural Northern Ontario, Gretchen Roedde

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Deep water dream

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Gretchen Roedde

Sub title

a medical voyage of discovery in rural Northern Ontario

Summary

A hopeful memoir that shares the author's voyage of discovery as a mother, wife, and physician in underserved communities in northern Ontario. In underserved areas of Canada, the communities themselves can be one of the strongest parts of the health care team. Dr. Gretchen Roedde shows how local communities play a major role in responding to illness, birth, and death, making each more meaningful and bearable. In Deep Water Dream, Roedde recounts stories from her long career - from working with a Cree community in developing a medical dictionary in their own language, to training community-based health workers, to delivering Amish babies in her own home. Roedde redraws the boundaries between physician and community, strengthening the capacity to care for those close by, and offers a hopeful and powerful example to the rest of the world

Target audience

adult

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