From the author of Healthy Bastards, the man known as the 'Flying Doctor' is back, this time with his misadventures, escapades and high jinks from a life of medicine, aviation and hunting.
Dr Dave Baldwin, author of men's health guide Healthy Bastards, is
a GP based in Bulls who operates New Zealand's first and only
Flying Doctor service, providing a medical aviation service to
pilots in remote areas of New Zealand (www.flyingdoctor.co.nz). His
writing style has a humorous turn reminiscent of that good keen man
of New Zealand humour, Barry Crump.
Baldwin's other love besides his wife Sandi is aviation, and he
flies a Cessna 172 Hawk XP2 with a CSU and 210hp continental
engine.
Dr Dave is presently focusing his 'Healthy Bastards' campaign on
social media (Facebook and YouTube) as a way of getting good health
messages to 'unhealthy bastards'. Not long ago he won a landmark
Advertising Standards Authority complaint (along with an appeal)
relating to his 'Healthy Bastards' radio advertisements, which has
further fuelled his enthusiasm to keep going with the campaign.
GP Pulse called Healthy Bastards a 'special book' while M2
commended its 'plain-speaking response to that cliched plea, "in
English please" '. The reviewer in Healthy Options lauded its
combination of a 'wonderful witty approach' with explanations 'in
no uncertain terms of common symptoms . . . and when to consult a
GP', before concluding that what sets it apart from other men's
health books is that Baldwin 'speaks their language and that is a
foolproof recipe for success'. Angela Fitchett, reviewing Healthy
Bastards in the Nelson Mail, test-ran the book on her 'large family
of mainly "blokes" ' and concluded- 'Dr Dave seems to have a winner
here - a good buy for any bloke who's keen on keeping everything in
working order for the long haul.'
NZ Aviation News summed up- 'Healthy Bastards is just like its
author - robust, noisy, irreverent, intemperate and funny but with
a deep underlying message. Read it. It could change your life for
the better.'
The reviewer in Rod & Rifle appreciated the accessibility provided
by writing the book 'around a fictional character called Gav
McAvedy, a chopper pilot who flies "hunters, hikers and associated
tree huggers around Fiordland and South Westland" ', whom Pharmacy
Today called 'somewhat disease-prone'.
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