The Vasectomy Doctor: A Memoir

✍ Scribed by Dr. Andrew Rynne

• Book ID: 107580418
• Publisher: Mercier Press
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 151 KB
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

The Vasectomy Doctor is the fascinating story of the first doctor to provide a vasectomy in Ireland, and his struggle to facilitate his patients' family-planning in the face of the Church's hold on issues of birth control and abortion.

The barrel of a .22 rifle is coming into the room, quickly followed by a short dark man with his right index finger on the trigger. He mutters something incoherent like, ''You ruined my life eight years ago, so I am going to take yours now.'' Then he comes straight at me and holds the muzzle of his rifle two inches away from my lower forehead, straight between my eyes.

Dr. Andrew Rynne is not a man afraid to face conflict. When he was shot by a disgruntled vasectomy client in 1990, he visited the man in prison to talk things over. He parted without animosity from the man who had shot at him six times. In The Vasectomy Doctor, we explore the man behind the surgical mask. We see him touring the North England folk clubs...