WEST AUSTRALIANA Medical Biography –

RFDS Royal Flying Doctor Service. Stories, anecdotes and incidents from the life of a Flying Doctor in the Kimberley between 1956 and 1970. Dr. Lawson Holman lived in Derby from 1956 until the end of 1970.  Aeronautics in medicine.

• x, 170 p. : ill., ports., 1 map ; 22 cm. Signed by Author (inscription)

“It’s a yarn with all the necessary human-interest ingredients – adventure, drama, pathos and tragedy – but, most importantly, it a collection of wonderful down to earth Australian humour which provides a succession of belly-laughs’

Stories written by Lawson Holman for his grandchildren; Holman had responsibility for the three Derby hospitals – the Derby District Hospital, the Derby Native Hospital and the Derby Leprosarium – and the hospitals in Fitzroy Crossing, Halls Creek and Balgo, and the nursing post at Kalumburu Mission; he sometimes attended hospitals in Wyndham and Broome, and nursing posts at La Grange, Lombadina and Beagle Bay; Native Hospital Derby p. 9, 11, 26-29, 118; Derby Leprosarium p. 10-11; raids on Oobagooma Homestead p. 81, 84; telepathy p. 94; punishment and healing p. 116; a gambling story p. 137.

Notes:

• Includes index.
• Bibliography: p. 168.

First Nations (AIATSIS) Subject:

• Health services – Emergency services – Air ambulances / Flying Doctor
• Indigenous knowledge – Health and medicine
• Derby (WA West Kimberley SE51-07)
• Kimberley area (WA SD51, SD52, SE51, SE52)

Subject:

• Holman, Lawson James, 1928-1993
• Aeronautics in medicine — Western Australia — Biography
• Physicians — Western Australia — Biography
• Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia — Biography

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