Title: The "Open Yar Mouth" Health Care Lottery
Description: What if your child was sick, and you did not have a family doctor? What would you be willing to do? Frotten Nickerson is an ailing boy and his mother and grandfather do what they have to - even participating in a health care lottery - to get the medical care Frotten needs. Timely, heartwarming and based on real-life Canadian issues, this story captures the dynamics of a community faced with inadequate health care and unusual choices.
Subjects: children, picture book, nova scotia, medical care, canada, federal, doctor, shortage
Places: nova scotia, canada, ontario
People: cheryl cowtan, cheryl r cowtan
Time periods: 2006