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Dr. Sterling Haynes' vivid stories read like the man himself: gritty, irreverent, and humane. There are few subjects he won't tackle and with nearly 50 years as a general practitioner...yes, a doctor who made house calls, horse calls and other such visits...Haynes shares with the reader his experiences of life as a pioneering doctor in Canada's western province of British Columbia and the Deep South's Alabama during the latter half of the 20th century. From giving life blood to his own mother during a serious cancer battle at the age of fourteen to caring for the mother and father of Coretta Scott King's parents...Haynes has lived the life of a doctor who served everyone that sincerely needed his expertise. You'll chortle, weep and gnash your teeth at this down-to-earth doctor's tales of reality in the real emergency rooms of our planet.

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Sterling Haynes is an octogenarian writer. His first book, Bloody Practice, published by Caitlin Press, was a bestseller in his home province of British Columbia. His second book, Wake-Up Call, is now available as an eBook. In 2008, Haynes won the French Naji Naaman Literary Prize and later the Joyce Dunn Award in B.C. for creative non-fiction. In 2013, the Arts Council of the Okanagan awarded him a magnificent glass statue for excellence in the Literary Arts. His stories and poetry have appeared in Canadian anthologies and magazines including The New Quarterly, The Medical Post, The BC Medical Journal, The Rocky Mountain Goat, The Canadian Journal of Rural Medicine and Haiku Canada.

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