"A Dose of Good Reading"
Reviewed by Sandi Shilhanek
Posted April 4, 2005
Romance Series
Jordan Burke is a highly trained and respected E.R.
doctor. However, one night in the
E.R. changes her life in ways she never would have nor
could have anticipated. It is the night she treats a
patient for a drug overdose. However this patient is not
just some nameless person to whom Jordan has no
connections. This particular patient is her husband
Garry. Jordan is based with the decision of treating him, or
acknowledging their relationship and getting another
doctor in. She treats him, but the treatment has an
effect not only on Garry, but on Jordan as well. Good
Medicine by Bobby Hutchinson follows Jordan after that
fateful night in the E.R. After that night Jordan decides that a change is needed in
her life. What could be more different from the E.R. than
signing on to be a doctor in a remote First Nations
Village for a year. The move to Ahousaht will be a big
change for Jordan, and will force many changes upon her. Silas Keefer is also looking for his place in the world.
His mother was First Nation, but his father was Anglo.
They lived in the Anglo world until his mother got sick,
and was taken back to Ahousaht for treatment. Silas was
forced to stay behind with his father. This upbringing
has had an impact on Silas' view of the world. He's now
living in Ahousaht as a healer, but like Jordan is still
working through issues that deal with his childhood. Silas and Jordan are two lost souls who can benefit from a
relationship. However they both have issues that need to
work through so that their relationship may develop into
what it was predestined to become. Ms. Hutchinson has
penned her book in such a way that each can finally accept
their childhood situations without really undermining how
those childhoods melded them into the adults they are
today. I hope that you enjoy reading Good Medicine as I did. I'm
hopeful that now Ms. Hutchinson will allow us a visit back
to Ahousaht to follow up with these caring characters.
SUMMARY
Jordan had tried to love and support her husband. Even after
he'd cleaned out the apartment and sold many of their
belongings for drug money. But when, as the doctor on call
in the E.R., she'd been forced to treat Garry's overdose, it
had nearly killed her, too. Knowing she couldn't survive
much more, she left him and Vancouver behind. She hoped only
to find peace as the new resident G.P. in the remote First
Nations village of Ahousaht. She never expected to meet someone as gentle and nurturing
as native healer Silas Keefer, a man who understands
Jordan's need to escape her past. He'd done the same thing
himself years earlier. Their love is unexpected and right, but can Jordan and Silas
have a future if they cannot heal the past?
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