"A Doctor's Life" is an intense and compelling drama that captures all the fear and frustration, trauma, courage and compassion of the author's extraordinary journey. It is the vividly personal account of one doctor who has achieved illuminating insights into the meaning and the limits of medicine in today's world.

A Doctor's Life: Unique Stories

Biographies & Memoirs

Close, William T.

Professionals & Academics

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At a Catholic Mission in Yambuku, an oasis of peace and efficiency in northern Congo's vast jungle forests, Mabalo Lokela, a teacher, receives an anti-malarial shot for a raging fever and headache. Sister Lucie, a Flemish nursing sister, swishes out a syringe with a weak disinfectant. The next patients are injected with the same syringe and the sick man's virus spreads. 
Lokela was the first Congolese victim of a new African hemorrhagic disease that became known as Ebola fever. When Sister Lucie dies a few days later, panic erupts and hospitalized patients flee into the forest. With the convent connected to the outside world by a single primitive radio, the mission nuns can only pray and wonder if anyone will act on their cries for help.

Ebola: Through the Eyes of the People

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

"Subversion of Trust" is the story of Alex McKinnon, an older rural doctor who challenges an aggressive for-profit HMO for the sake of his patients and his integrity. With the advent of spring in a Montana ranching community, the stakes are raised and the community's clinic, with its unforgettable cast of characters, is pitted against a regional medical center. Doc's protégé, Dr. Jenny Morgan, is the center's feisty chief of staff and head of emergency services. At the heart of this story is Waynona -- pregnant and penniless -- a heroine in her own right. Other memorable characters in this well-crafted narrative are Peggy, Doc's office nurse and the love of his life; Stan, a strapping cowboy and Jenny's high school sweetheart; John and Emma Morgan, Jenny's folks and longtime ranchers in the community; and Hugh Drummel, the ambitious self-important hospital administrator. The human dramas of medicine play out in underhanded competitions for control of patients and their families and the revenue they represent. This is a tale of dedication and daring, of power abused, and of the difficult choices to be made in health care. How Doc and Jenny finally solve their dilemmas is a spirited story that will give the medical profession courage and patients hope.

Subversion of Trust

Medical Books

Close, William T., M.D.

Medicine

Novel captures the good, the bad, and the ugly of medicine today. Discusses power and greed: the kind that destroys human relationships, and courage: the kind that rebuilds human relationships. Softcover, hardcover listed in approval week 2002-23.

The colonel's great-aunt sat cross-legged on the carpet with her mouth wide open. With a gnarled finger, she pointed down her throat. A fishbone peeked over the base of her tongue and was easily retrieved. The old woman and the colonel were delighted. The doctor was relieved. This episode was the first of many that led Dr. Bill Close toward becoming the physician and friend to many, including the colonel who became president and then dictator of the Congo. 
Beyond the Storm details Dr. Close's extraordinary experiences during the uncontrollable human storms that crashed repeatedly in the Congo after independence. In July of 1960 chaos erupted when Belgium turned over power to Patrice Lumumba, the first elected prime minister, but kept the keys to the nation's prodigious mineral wealth. Two men, Colonel Joseph Désiré Mobutu, the newly appointed army chief of staff, and William T. Close, M.D., volunteer surgeon in the general hospital, met, and their lives became intertwined during the next sixteen years.

Beyond the Storm: Treating the Powerless & the Powerful in Mobutu's Congo/Zaire

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A Doctor's Life: Unique Stories

Ebola: Through the Eyes of the People

Subversion of Trust

Subversion of Trust

Beyond the Storm: Treating the Powerless & the Powerful in Mobutu's Congo/Zaire