* Preface * Introduction * Timeline of Events *1. Early Life * Earliest Memories * Milwaukee Childhood * Pella, Iowa, and Adolescence * Central College * Graduation and My First Job *2. Medical Training * The Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania * Internships *3. Early Years in Kuwait * Getting There * A New Life * Coming Out in Kuwaiti Society * Kuwait City * Mission History * Dr. Mylrea * Living with Mary Van Pelt * Weddings * My First Case * Under the Knife * Home * Mistake *4. A Real Doctor * Practicing Medicine in Kuwait, 1936 * Cases in the Early Years * Trachoma * The Summer's Heat * Expectations and Disappointments *5. Medicine and Marriage * The Way of a Man with a Maid * Scotland to Kuwait, Overland-1939 * Back to Work! * A New Hospital, a New Nurse * Cases * Ayisha, and My Other Patients * Spring * With Norman in India *6. The War Years * Back to the U.S.A., January 1942 * Divorce * The Dahanu Road Mission Hospital (India) * Monsoon * Asked Back *7. Kuwait Practice Renewed, 1945 * New Faces * New Cases * New Problems * Four Months at Qatar, 1948 * Changes and Obstetrics in Kuwait * Oman, 1949 * Running the Show in Kuwait * Slaves * To U.S.A. on Furlough, 1950 * Kuwait Builds, 1951 * Cars and Schools * Kuwaiti Women's Lives and Health in the 1950s * The Morning Clinic * Kuwait Women's Medical Report to the Board-October 1954 *8. Questions of Mission * A Question of Mission * Kuwait Hosts the Annual Mission Meeting, 1955 * Shirley and the Shaikh * Kuwait Internationalizes * Ramadan and Clinics, 1954 * Converts * Another Question of Mission: Air-Conditioners * Mission 1955-1956 * The Board Reassesses the Missions * Applying the Board's Suggestions * Iraq's Threat Kuwait's Growth * A New View of Islam *9. Changes in the Mission Field, 1958 * Back to the Mission * Fresh Recruits * The Sixties in Kuwait * My Brother, Paul Bruins * Times of Sorrow * Furlough, 1964-1965 *10. Bahrain * Bahrain's Historical Background * Mission in Bahrain * Cases * The Closing of Kuwait's Medical Mission, March 1967 * Interlude in Oman, 1968 * Back to Bahrain, Fall 1968 * Vacation in Kuwait, 1968 * Bahrain, 1970 * Back to the U.S.A. * The Way Back: Bahrain's New Church *11. Oman * Oman, 1971 * Historical Background of Oman * The Mutrah Hospital * The Mutrah Morning Clinic * Malaria * Cholera * Leprosy * Tazeea for Dr. Wells Thoms, October 1971 * Diversions, 1972 * Travels in Oman, October and November 1972 * Kuwait Revisited * My Last Year * Return to Dahanu Road * Cholera Epidemic * Turnover * Statistics and Hospital Data * Annual Reports of the Kuwait Women's Hospital to the Mission Board in New York * American Mission Hospital-Kuwait * Bahrain Attendance Records for Eleven Months of 1969 * Oman Mission Hospitals-Statistics, June 1 to Dec. 31, 1971 * Mutrah, Oman: Hospital Statistics, 1973 * Muscat, Oman: Assaada Hospital Statistics, 1973