Jack Mayer
CommentatorJack Mayer is a Vermont writer and pediatrician. From 1976 - 1986 he was a country doctor on the Canadian border bartering medical care for eggs, firewood, and knitted afghans. Dr. Mayer established Rainbow Pediatrics in Middlebury, Vermont in 1991 where he continues to practice primary care pediatrics. He was a participant at the Bread Loaf Writers鈥� Conference in 2003 and 2005 (fiction) and 2008 (poetry). His first non-fiction book is Life In A Jar: The Irena Sendler Project. His latest novel, Before The Court Of Heaven, is inspired by the history of how Germany鈥檚 Weimar democracy became the Third Reich.
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In 1983, ticks were exotic creatures in Enosburg Falls on the Canadian border where I practiced pediatrics. My 8-year-old patient presented with a鈥� -
We鈥檙e in the middle of a national flu epidemic. And it鈥檚 sobering to remember that fully half of those who died during the great Flu Pandemic of 1918, one鈥�