When I Am a Doctor
Anne GlewPaperback 2020-12-01
Lorna, the wife of a country minister, who believed that her family had been cursed with a financial affliction, gave birth to their firstborn daughter, Anne, on 8th Jan 1940 while Australia was at war. The minister became an Army Chaplain with the position of an officer, a Captain.
Without a parsonage to house his family, Rev. Captain Crouch borrowed the deposit from his father in Melbourne for a house in the Melbourne, Australia suburb of Brighton, suitably close to his parents in St. Kilda. Then, ensconcing Lorna and the children safely, he moved wherever the government sent him: to military bases around Australia and Papua New Guinea
At war's end, in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, the government was not prepared to let him go. He was asked to rebuild the schools closed during the war. Happy to comply, he stayed. For two years Lorna and the family, now with three daughters, lived with him in Port Moresby. However, the children required schooling in Australia, particularly the firstborn daughter who was, from an early age, destined to become a doctor. Why?
When Anne was starting 2nd year Medicine, her father, Rev Crouch retired, re-establishing the family of wife and three teenage daughters, in the home in Brighton. Anne now knew that her parents had conspired for her to become a doctor, sabotaging her many attempts at romance, so she could keep them financially secure and break their curse.
For days Anne could hardly concentrate on her patients. She spoke to the receptionists, to her colleagues and to her minister... Then she wrote this book.
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Lorna, the wife of a country minister, believed that her husband brought to their marriage his inherited family curse of poverty. She looked for relief to their firstborn daughter Anne who from the start showed the high intelligence capable of the earning potential of a medical doctor. Anne did become a doctor. One day when Anne and her youngest sister, both now grandmothers, were talking on the telephone about their early lives, the conversation turned to the time when Anne was starting second year Medicine. Abruptly the sister blurted out a long held secret. What she said turned Anne's world on its axis. Anne became giddy and her head spun. For the next few weeks, she could barely concentrate on her patients. She repeated the conversation to her receptionists, her colleagues and her minister. Then she wrote this book!
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Lorna, the wife of a country minister, who believed that her family had been cursed with a financial affliction, gave birth to their firstborn daughter, Anne, on 8th Jan 1940 while Australia was at war. The minister became an Army Chaplain with the position of an officer, a Captain.
Without a parsonage to house his family, Rev. Captain Crouch borrowed the deposit from his father in Melbourne for a house in the Melbourne, Australia suburb of Brighton, suitably close to his parents in St. Kilda. Then, ensconcing Lorna and the children safely, he moved wherever the government sent him: to military bases around Australia and Papua New Guinea
At war's end, in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, the government was not prepared to let him go. He was asked to rebuild the schools closed during the war. Happy to comply, he stayed. For two years Lorna and the family, now with three daughters, lived with him in Port Moresby. However, the children required schooling in Australia, particularly the firstborn daughter who was, from an early age, destined to become a doctor. Why?
When Anne was starting 2nd year Medicine, her father, Rev Crouch retired, re-establishing the family of wife and three teenage daughters, in the home in Brighton. Anne now knew that her parents had conspired for her to become a doctor, sabotaging her many attempts at romance, so she could keep them financially secure and break their curse.
For days Anne could hardly concentrate on her patients. She spoke to the receptionists, to her colleagues and to her minister... Then she wrote this book.
-Publisher.
Publisher Description
Lorna, the wife of a country minister, believed that her husband brought to their marriage his inherited family curse of poverty. She looked for relief to their firstborn daughter Anne who from the start showed the high intelligence capable of the earning potential of a medical doctor. Anne did become a doctor. One day when Anne and her youngest sister, both now grandmothers, were talking on the telephone about their early lives, the conversation turned to the time when Anne was starting second year Medicine. Abruptly the sister blurted out a long held secret. What she said turned Anne's world on its axis. Anne became giddy and her head spun. For the next few weeks, she could barely concentrate on her patients. She repeated the conversation to her receptionists, her colleagues and her minister. Then she wrote this book!