Couldn’t stay away, could you? The characters and drama that seduced you in the first two books left a craving—and more Sababa is the cure. Inside these pages live the final seven original stories of survival, suspense, and satire from the Sage of the Salish Sea— the most special season of a seasoned specialist. He will amuse you with his wit and wisdom, and the spontaneous combustion and thrust they generate, often mixed in unequal proportions, as he dances with the devil in the pale moonlight. BC Bud is back on the radio, and the professor is back on point. Before there was artificial intelligence, the Good Doctor was the real thing, working in the mysterious old ways of a masterless samurai. But there comes an ill wind. Trouble, oh we got trouble... right here in Harbour City... with a capital ‘T’... and that rhymes with C and that stands for ‘Cool.’ Welcome to the winter of his Casebook and the unmaking of the man. Welcome back to Sababaland.

2. The Doctor Sababa Series

3. What is the Doctor Sababa Series about?
A savage satire about the fast-fading era of the
medical savant—succeeded by committees, AI
algorithms, and the cult of collaboration—
extinguishing forever the glory of the clinical
knight-errant.

7. Housekeeping
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8. Fiction NOUN /ˈfikSH(ə)n/
Literature in the form of prose, especially novels, that describes imaginary events and people.

9. Why I Took So Long to Write This Series
• The topics are complex
• The characters are close
• I did this job for over thirty years
• It felt like being at work again
• One acquires perspective from distance
• It took time to run out of reasons not to write it

10. The Casebooks of Doctor Sababa
• What is Doctor Sababa?
• Where is Doctor Sababa?
• Who is Doctor Sababa?

12. Where is Doctor Sababa?

14. Harbour City Regional Hospital

15. ICU

17. Harbour City Emergency

18. Medical Ward

19. Doctor Sababa’s Office

20. Sababa’s Homestea

21. Who is Doctor Sababa?

22. Normal?
• Boring, uncharismatic?
• Obliging, humble, reverent?
• Selfless?
• Friendly, caring?
• Socially adept?
• Self-critical?
• Polite?

24. Expert Consultants
• Brought into cases that have proven too difficult for other investigators
• Geniuses—brilliant minds able to think outside the box
• Mind-blowing observational abilities, deductive skills, and special esoteric knowledge
• Can deduce a great deal from just looking at a person
• Know a lot about everything—extraordinary aptitude for minutiae
• Passionate about knowledge for its own sake
• Tend to come to rapid conclusions after the briefest examination of the circumstances
• Lazy unless looking into something that intrigues them
• Indifferent to the people they work for
• Views clients/patients as annoying yet necessary variables
• Committed to helping others for the mystery itself
• Driven by the challenge to solve whatever puzzle is at hand—good at it

25. • Anti-heroes with the intellectual power to produce
coherence and bring order to random, distressing events
• The critical element is the resolution of the puzzle rather
than the restoration of the person
• Not patient-centred (or client-centred) care approaches

26. Unconventional Personalities
• Magnetic, charismatic, musical
• Condescending, arrogant, sarcastic
• Misanthropic, antisocial, self-indulgent
• Aloof, cold-blooded, scientific
• Lack basic social skills
• Rationalize their behaviour
• Brusque manner (especially when occupied in a case)

27. Inspiration Joseph Bell Sherlock Holmes ?
Marital Status Single Separated Married
Address London, UK Princeton, NJ Harbour City, BC
Poisons Cocaine Hydrocodone Pinot noir

28. What Doctor Sababa Also Has
• Colombian leather briefcase
• Little Black Book of Remedies
• Littman Master Cardiology black and brass stethoscope
• Dimpled and dented white Honda Civic
• Music library on a secret drive hidden deep inside the
hospital computer network (5000 tunes)

30. Suits

32. Sababa’s Equation of Medical-Bureaucratic
Inequity
x = ________Power__________
(Knowledge + Accountability)
where xideal = 1;
xbureaucrat = Infinity;
xphysician = 0

33. Snowflakes and Charlatans

37. The Cases

38. The First Cases

39. 1. The Case of the Ultimate Artery

40. 2. The Case of the Broken
Heart

41. 3. The Case of the Cornelian Dilemma

42. 4. The Case of the Parthian Shot

43. 5. The Case of the Syncopated Rhythm

44. 6. The Case of the Lush Vegetation

45. 7. The Case of the Flushed Fisherman

46. 8. The Case of the Melting Man

47. 9. The Case of the Pretty
Bird

48. 10. The Case of the Sumatran Mosquito

49. 11. The Case of the Deadly Tree

50. 12. The Case of the Double Double Whammy

51. The Next Cases

52. 13. The Case of the Universal Veil

53. 14. The Case of the Orange Faller

54. 15. The Case of the Tumescent Tattoos

55. 16. The Case of the Congo Stain

56. 17. The Case from the Crack of Doom

57. 18. The Case of the Sensitive Smurf

58. The Last Cases

59. 19. The Case of the Aboriginal Snowman

60. 20. The Case of the Cedar Shakes and Shingles

61. 21. The Case of the Ruptured Rosary

62. 22. The Case of Ondine’s Curse

63. 23. The Case of the Progressive Paralysis

64. 23. The Case of the Spicy Schoolgirl

65. 25. The Case of the Painful Playground

67. 23. The Case of the Spicy Schoolgirl

68. How to Read The Casebooks
• Lyrical
• Analytical
• Existential

69. Where Can I Get the Doctor Sababa
Series?

70. Where Can I Get the Doctor Sababa
Series?
• Amazon/Audible
• KOBO
• Barnes and Noble (Nook)
• Apple Books
• Google Books
• Google Play
• Payhip
• Lulu
• Audible
• Scribd
• Several other platforms
• Vancouver Island Regional Libraries

71. www.lawrencewinkler.com