Bibliograph

Tell me I'm okay, a doctor's story, David Bradford

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Tell me I'm okay, a doctor's story, David Bradford

Language

eng

resource.biographical

autobiography

Illustrations

illustrationsportraits

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Tell me I'm okay

Responsibility statement

David Bradford

Sub title

a doctor's story

Summary

In "Tell Me I'm Okay", author and retired sexual health doctor David Bradford relates a remarkable set of stories about growing up as a gay child in a strongly Christian family, struggling with his sexuality, serving as an army doctor in Vietnam during the Vietnam War, working as Director of the Melbourne Communicable Diseases Centre at the time of the arrival of HIV/AIDS, and in private practice with hundreds of AIDS patients, many of whom did not survive. Here is a humane, wise, thoughtful voice, always conscious of the wonderful, the absurd, the fragile nature of life. David Bradford's story tells us much about who we are, how we've changed, and where some at least of our scars have come from

Table Of Contents

pt. One Pre-AIDS -- ch. 1 First and Last -- ch. 2 Growing Up -- ch. 3 University -- ch. 4 Vietnam -- ch. 5 London -- ch. 6 I Meet Michael -- ch. 7 Return to Australia -- pt. Two AIDS -- ch. 8 The Wave on the Horizon -- ch. 9 The HIV Antibody Test and Its Controversies -- ch. 10 The Queensland Babies -- ch. 11 I Leave the MCDC -- ch. 12 The Demise of Fairfield Hospital -- ch. 13 All My Patients -- ch. 14 Cairns

Target audience

adult

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Tell me I am okay

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