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Letter to the editor: Peaks doctor’s memoir is one to ‘Go Buy’
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Seldom does a book come along that I so heartily enjoy and recommend as “Go By Boat,” by local physician Chuck Radis.
In his book, set among the largest populated islands of Chebeague, Peaks, Cliff and Long, and on the water between Portland and various stone piers, Radis weaves his experiences operating a clinic, making house calls and attending to family needs in the remotest parts of Casco Bay while developing knowledge of each patient’s pathology. He is necessarily engaged part of most days problem-solving the medical way, and more often than not cajoling people to do something they clearly do not want to do – ever leave their island home.
Published May 5, 2021 at 7:00 AM EDT
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Getting medical care can be difficult under the best of circumstances. For those living in one of Maine’s many island communities, accessing health care is a particular challenge. We’ll hear from a doctor who’s spent much of his career serving Mainers who live on an island, as well as others who are helping to find solutions.
Panelist:
Chuck Radis, primary care physician serving Maine islands; background in osteopathic medicine and internal medicine; serves year-round islands in Casco Bay; author of
Go By Boat, about being an island doctor.
I wanted to show how people adapt…I wanted to show their resilience” Author: Rob Caldwell Updated: 4:19 PM EDT April 26, 2021
PORTLAND, Maine In his new memoir, “Go by Boat: Stories of a Maine Island Doctor,” Chuck Radis has a quotation from another physician: “The diseases are easy; the patients are hard.”
When Dr. Radis began serving the residents of four islands in Casco Bay (Peaks, Long, Chebeague, and Cliff) he discovered something else that was hard just getting around. He spent about eleven hours of every workweek riding on a ferry, going from one island to another to make housecalls. Many of the islanders had no interest in traveling to Portland for medical care.