Snowshoe & Lancet

Organized sequentially around journal entries, these memoirs focus mainly on the author's medical exploits. He first went to Notre Dame Bay Memorial Hospital in Twillingate, Newfoundland, in 1934, to spend the summer after his third year of medical school at Johns Hopkins. He was lured by the prospect of gaining more clinical training and finding a way to escape the stifling heat of Baltimore. [End Page 175] The Hopkins connection at this hospital was firmly in place: when the Notre Dame Bay Memorial Hospital officially opened in 1924, its director was Charles Parsons, a 1919 graduate of the Johns Hopkins medical school. Parsons had initially gone north to join Sir Wilfred Grenfell in the work of his Labrador Mission. Concerned by the lack of medical facilities on the northeast archipelago of Newfoundland, Grenfell spearheaded the formation of this hospital. After Parsons became head of the hospital, he returned from time to time to Hopkins to recruit physicians, nurses, and medical students for his staff. John Olds, one of Parsons's most promising student recruits, returned in 1931 to Notre Dame after receiving his medical degree from Johns Hopkins; when Olds became director in 1935, he continued to draw upon Hopkins for staff, and Ecke was one of his recruits

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