Sign-In
Cart
Borderline Medicine: A Country Doctor's Extraordinary Cases
Paperback
Historical FiguresMedical Reference
Please select the version of book you would like to purchase.
ISBN10: 1069941336
ISBN13: 9781069941336
Publisher: Ronald K Francis
Published: Feb 5 2026
Pages: 346
Weight: 0.79
Height: 0.77 Width: 5.25 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781069941336
Publisher: Ronald K Francis
Published: Feb 5 2026
Pages: 346
Weight: 0.79
Height: 0.77 Width: 5.25 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
In the border country, the law had long arms. But a dying man has none.
When Dr. Arnold Francis arrived in rural British Columbia in the 1920s, he brought a medical degree and little else. What the textbooks never taught him was that a country doctor's true territory had nothing to do with boundaries on a map. Over fifty years of practice-through Prohibition, the Great Depression, and the upheaval of war-he stitched up bootleggers and delivered babies, vaccinated children in Doukhobor villages and treated the sick in Japanese internment camps. He pulled an open safety pin from an infant's throat with forceps and steady hands, and he sailed his boat through kelp beds to reach a mother labouring alone on an island reservation.
When Dr. Arnold Francis arrived in rural British Columbia in the 1920s, he brought a medical degree and little else. What the textbooks never taught him was that a country doctor's true territory had nothing to do with boundaries on a map. Over fifty years of practice-through Prohibition, the Great Depression, and the upheaval of war-he stitched up bootleggers and delivered babies, vaccinated children in Doukhobor villages and treated the sick in Japanese internment camps. He pulled an open safety pin from an infant's throat with forceps and steady hands, and he sailed his boat through kelp beds to reach a mother labouring alone on an island reservation.
Based on the true stories of Dr. Arnold Francis, Borderline Medicine is a memoir of moral grey areas and quiet heroism-of a man who never turned away a patient, never asked what a man had done before treating what was wrong with him, and carried his black bag into places where the rules did not quite apply. It is a portrait of rural medicine at its most human, and of a community that depended on one doctor to be everything the world beyond the mountains could not.
A true story of compassion, courage, and the borderline between right and necessary.
A true story of compassion, courage, and the borderline between right and necessary.
Also from
Francis, Ronald K.
What if Your Pain Was the Point? Finding Hope After Heartbreak: Your Roadmap to Healing and Renewed Confidence in 30 Days or Less
Francis, Ronald K.
Paperback
$21.46
Also in
Historical Figures
Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy: A Righteous Gentile vs. the Third Reich
Metaxas, Eric
Paperback
$11.99
The Rise of Thomas Cromwell: Power and Politics in the Reign of Henry VIII, 1485-1534
Everett, Michael
Paperback
$10.99
One Man in: The Explosive Firsthand Account of the Lone Special-Ops Commando Who Fought Off a Major Terrorist Attack in Kenya
Craighead, Christian
Hardcover
$28.50
The Lost Founder: James Wilson and the Forgotten Fight for a People's Constitution
Wegman, Jesse
Hardcover
$27.00
The Lost Empire of Emanuel Nobel: Romanovs, Revolutionaries, and the Forgotten Titan Who Fueled the World
Brunt, Douglas
Hardcover
$28.80
America's Founding Son: John Quincy Adams, from President to Political Maverick
Crawford, Bob
Hardcover
$26.60
A Librarian's War: The Man Who Fought World War II with Books and Brought the Joy of Reading to Millions
Manning, Molly Guptill
Hardcover
$31.49
Solo and Together: Charles and Anne Morrow Lindbergh, an Enigmatic Life and Marriage
Hansen, James R.
Hardcover
$38.00
Operation Sparrow: The Incredible True Story of the Spies Who Tricked Hitler and Won the War
Bell, Jason
Hardcover
$29.69
Thomas Jefferson Survives: American Independence in His Time and Ours
Onuf, Peter S.
Cogliano, Francis D.
Hardcover
$26.99
Family of Spies: A World War II Story of Nazi Espionage, Betrayal, and the Secret History Behind Pearl Harbor
Kuehn, Christine
Paperback
$17.09
Cicero's Tongue: The Life of Rome's Greatest Orator and the End of the Republic
Edwards, Catharine
Hardcover
$29.70
The Nine: The True Story of a Band of Women Who Survived the Worst of Nazi Germany
Strauss, Gwen
Paperback
$19.00
The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom
Boom, Corrie Ten
Sherrill, John
Paperback
From $4.99
Rebel of the Regency: The Scandalous Saga of Caroline of Brunswick, Britain's Queen Without a Crown
Foster, Ann
Hardcover
$29.69
A Thousand Shall Fall: The Electrifying Story of a Soldier and His Family Who Dared to Practice Their Faith in Hitler's Germany
Mundy, Susi Hasel
Paperback
$16.14
Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook
Bourdain, Anthony
Paperback
$16.19
Biography of a Dangerous Idea: A New History of Race from Louis XIV to Thomas Jefferson
Curran, Andrew S.
Hardcover
$37.99
The Mysterious Case of Rudolf Diesel: Genius, Power, and Deception on the Eve of World War I
Brunt, Douglas
Paperback
From $9.99
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
Kendi, Ibram X.
Paperback
$27.54
The Forsaken Founder: Gouverneur Morris, the Unsung Patriot Who Wrote the Constitution, Stood Up to Slavery, and Survived the Reign of Terror
Greenberger, Scott S.
Hardcover
$28.50
The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
Winchester, Simon
Paperback
$18.04
The Confessions of Samuel Pepys: Private Revelations from Britain's Most Famed Diarist
de la Bédoyère, Guy
Hardcover
$31.50
Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High
Beals, Melba Pattillo
Paperback
From $7.99
American Prometheus (Pulitzer Prize Winner): The Inspiration for the Major Motion Picture Oppenheimer
Bird, Kai
Sherwin, Martin J.
Paperback
From $14.99
The Pursuit of Happiness: How Classical Writers on Virtue Inspired the Lives of the Founders and Defined America
Rosen, Jeffrey
Paperback
$19.00
The Widow Clicquot: The Story of a Champagne Empire and the Woman Who Ruled It
Mazzeo, Tilar J.
Paperback
$18.04
The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II
Kiernan, Denise
Paperback
From $9.99
The Power Broker (Pulitzer Prize Winner): Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
Caro, Robert A.
Hardcover
$66.50
The First Fascist: The Sensational Life and Dark Legacy of the Marquis de Morès
Luzzatto, Sergio
Hardcover
$31.50
The Man Behind the Cane: Preston Brooks, Political Violence, and the Road to the Civil War
Quigley, Paul
Hardcover
$34.99
No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II
Goodwin, Doris Kearns
Paperback
From $12.99
The Greatest Beer Run Ever: A Memoir of Friendship, Loyalty, and War
Molloy, J. T.
Donohue, John Chick
Paperback
$18.04
The Book of Charlie: Wisdom from the Remarkable American Life of a 109-Year-Old Man
Von Drehle, David
Paperback
$18.04
A Human Being Died That Night: A South African Woman Confronts the Legacy of Apartheid
Gobodo-Madikizela, Pumla
Paperback
$17.09
Tomboy Bride, 50th Anniversary Edition: One Woman's Personal Account of Life in Mining Camps of the West
Backus, Harriet Fish
Paperback
$18.04
Master of the Senate (Pulitzer Prize Winner): The Years of Lyndon Johnson III
Caro, Robert A.
Paperback
From $14.99
Women Make History: Fifty-Three Stories of Courage, Strength & Resilience
Spaulding, Sharon
Paperback
$23.74
The Faithful Executioner: Life and Death, Honor and Shame in the Turbulent Sixteenth Century
Harrington, Joel F.
Paperback
$19.95