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His hospital ward was twenty-two Alaskan villages along the Yukon River. His ambulance was a red single-engine plane. "Doc" performed thirty years of medical work in Alaska. Dr. Elmer E. Gaede headed up to Anchorage in 1955. Here he stepped in beside living legends such as Noel Wien, pioneer for Alaskan commercial aviation. This book shows the personal & humorous account of man's growth from a novice in the frontier, to a man worthy of the title "Bush Pilot." The book is complete with action-packed stories of flying mishaps, medical emergencies & hunting adventures: from downing a 200 pound moose, to cracking up his plane, to hanging onto a psychotic patient who tries to bail out --- 200 feet ABOVE the Yukon! "Doc's" story is told by his daughter, Naomi Gaede-Penner. GENERAL AVIATION NEWS & FLYER states, "She reveals her sharp sensibilities in one of the finest depictions of a crash-in-progress I ever had come across." Men, women, school teachers, pilots, families & medical professionals respond with "We couldn't put it down until we were finished!" For information contact: Change Points, 6 Mourning Dove, Littleton, CO 80127. Phone: (303) 979-3057, FAX: (303) 933-3493.Gaede-Penner, Naomi is the author of 'Prescription for Adventure Bush Pilot Doctor' with ISBN 9780963703002 and ISBN 0963703005.
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