Glenn Vanstrum: 7 books

Only in the heart of Africa can the heart of a surgeon change.Dr. Malcolm Hartford promises to join his family on a grand vacation in East Africa before his daughter leaves for college. He cannot escape the hospital, though, until he finishes the most challenging case of his career. Sleep-deprived,...

S.I.C. MEMORIALA family can survive anything, if it can hang on through a hurricane, the founding of a surf religion, and a fungus among us.Hubert Humperdinck is an anesthesiologist at Sarah Imogene Cunningham Memorial, a hospital in San Diego. Hubert does not like to work, except to...

OF LION PAW AND TIGER JAW--StoriesHumans may not be the only animals who crave freedom.In these stories, we enter the minds of thirteen wild creatures and the humans that interact with them. There is no anthropomorphizing here--the beasts in this collection may be sentient, but they...

A redwood cannot change its nature. Can a dope dealer?The authorities have sprung Hobart Hawkins, pure-blooded Yurok, big-wave surfer, and pot farmer extraordinaire, after a five year sentence in Corcoran State Prison. To help reenter the straight world, Hawkins enrolls in an extension botany...

DISEASE BEYOND MY PRACTICE--StoriesNo one can survive a bi-polar world without a healthy dose of madness.An infectious disease doctor falls in love with a dope addict/real-estate agent patient. A paranoid schizophrenic decides he must render himself sterile. A meth freak tries to destroy...

NORTHERN LIBERTIESA painter can imitate life through his art, but he can also imitate death.In 1876, Thomas Eakins talks his way into the operating theatre of the famous surgeon, Samuel Gross. As Eakins sketches, the patient’s mother, Abigail Doverlund, has a near seizure at the brutality...

A true friend will never steal your girl, your wave, or your corpse.Rick Justin, a burned-out, Vietnam-era ex-corpsman, gets an education on friendship from his first day in a California medical school, when he meets the three anatomy partners who will shape the rest of his life.Majoring...