Arnold Tweed

Arnold Tweed is a son of the prairies. He grew up on a farm in southern Manitoba, went to one-room country schools and High School in Killarney. After graduating from Brandon College in 1959 he got side-tracked from the farm and obtained an MD from the University of Manitoba in 1964. Since then he has forayed into several medical fields: general practice, emergency medicine, intensive care and anesthesiology as well as attempts at medical research, teaching and medical administration – and more recently writing medical memoirs.

Never having abandoned his early yearning for the carefree country life, he and his wife have travelled widely, and have worked in Canada, Denmark, Singapore, New Zealand, Oman, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, and Nepal. His travels and diverse medical ventures have been well rewarded. Some of the most important lessons he has learned about medicine have come from chance encounters with unusual patients, unique characters and strange medical situations. This set of stories builds on some of those experiences.