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Sterling Haynes, MD

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Sterling Haynes is an octogenarian writer of humorous short stories and zany poems. He was a country and urban doctor for almost 40 years in BC and Alabama. When he was 70 he had a stroke and, as he puts it, “my brain was rearranged. I developed a wonky right foot, and started writing funny stories and poems. I traded a paralyzed right foot for a developing, storytelling right brain. Maybe I got the better of the deal!”

Back Page / March 2010

In 1817 the life of Chief Little Legs of the Shuswap First Nation was saved when his hunting companions performed primitive neurosurgery on the banks of Jacques Creek, Peachland—now known as Trepanier Creek.... Read More

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