We all remember our favorite places. You must really love this place if you want to return so badly. Or perhaps you just want to spend some more special time with Doctor Sababa, our Internal Medical consultant at Harbour City Regional Hospital. He would have amused 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. Before there was artificial intelligence, he was the real thing, working in the mysterious old ways of a masterless samurai. Inside these pages live six more original stories of survival, suspense, and satire from the Sage of the Salish Sea. Sharpen your pencils. Put on your thinking caps. Like the Good Doctor, you will have six minutes to see each patient. Don’t be alarmed. Think of it as an intellectual challenge. With lives in the balance.Welcome to the autumn of his Casebook. Welcome 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—soon to be succeeded by committees, AI
computer algorithms, and the cult of collaboration—
extinguishing forever the glory of the clinical knight-
errant.
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5. 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 this book

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

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

8. What is Doctor Sababa?

10. Where is Doctor Sababa?

12. Harbour City Regional Hospital

13. ICU

15. Harbour City Emergency

16. Medical Ward

18. Doctor Sababa’s Office

22. Sababa’s Homestea

24. Who is Doctor Sababa?

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

27. 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)

28. 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

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

30. • Heroes possessing the intellectual power to produce
coherence and restore order out of 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

31. 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)

32. To Be a Consultant

33. Type of Consults

35. Suits

36. ‘Health Authority’

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

41. Snowflakes and Charlatans

44. The Cases

45. Prologue
The Making of Doctor Sababa
At Work and Play in the House of God
The Casebook of Doctor Sababa
Spring—The Book of Wind
1. The Case of the Ultimate Artery
2. The Case of the Broken Heart
3. The Case of the Cornelian Dilemma
4. The Case of the Parthian Shot
5. The Case of the Syncopated Rhythm
6. The Case of the Lush Vegetation
Summer—The Book of Fire
7. The Case of the Flushed Fisherman
8. The Case of the Melting Man
9. The Case of the Pretty Bird
10. The Case of the Sumatran Mosquito
11. The Case of the Deadly Tree
12. The Case of the Double Double
Whammy
Epilogue
Characters
The Analects of Doctor Sababa
Songs and Poems
Table of Contents

46. 1. The Case of the Ultimate Artery

47. 2. The Case of the Broken
Heart

48. 3. The Case of the Cornelian Dilemma

49. 4. The Case of the Parthian Shot

50. 5. The Case of the Syncopated Rhythm

51. 6. The Case of the Lush Vegetation

52. 7. The Case of the Flushed Fisherman

53. 8. The Case of the Melting Man

54. 9. The Case of the Pretty
Bird

55. 10. The Case of the Sumatran Mosquito

56. 11. The Case of the Deadly Tree

57. 12. The Case of the Double Double Whammy

58. The Next Cases

59. Table of Contents
Prologue
The Next Casebook of Doctor Sababa
Autumn—The Book of Earth
13. The Case of the Universal Veil
14. The Case of the Orange Faller
15. The Case of the Tumescent
Tattoos
16. The Case of the Congo Stain
17. The Case from the Crack of Doom
18. The Case of the Sensitive Smurf
Epilogue
Characters
The Further Analects of Doctor
Sababa
Songs and Poems

60. 13. The Case of the Universal Veil

61. 14. The Case of the Orange Faller

62. 15. The Case of the Tumescent Tattoos

63. 16. The Case of the Congo Stain

64. 17. The Case from the Crack of Doom

65. 18. The Case of the Sensitive Smurf

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

67. “An eye-opener for medical and non-medical readers alike. Winkler writes with
style, irony, and wit.”
“Well written supposedly fictional account of a brilliant doctor of internal
medicine set mainly in the Emergency and ICU of the Nanaimo hospital. Much
of the medical jargon was over my head, but none the less- educational (thanks
to google) and lending authenticity to the dozen cases of this savant. The author
weaves humor and life stories of himself, peers and his patients into it, giving the
book a delightful lightness and reality. Looking forward to book 2 ....and the TV
series?”
“Fascinating read . Well written stories, great humour and interesting diagnosis of
Harbour City Medical center. The stories of pushing uphill against the flow, to
bring great medicine to deserving patients…”
“Like in all of his books Wink writes with great wit and cleverness. Having worked at
the Harbour City Regional for many years I knew/know many of the characters
depicted which makes it all the more entertaining for me. You certainly don’t
have to be in the medical field to enjoy the book but you would get more out of it
if you were. I laughed out loud throughout. Well done Dr Sababa.”
Reviews of The Casebook

68. “Winkler is a natural writer, and this is vintage Sababa. A
wonderful mélange of esoteric medical diagnoses, wit,
philosophical pearls, poetry, hospital banter, and medical
administrative satire. All stirred up by a brilliant eclectic
clinician. Required reading for anyone interested in how a
community hospital really works, alternative medical
practitioners who believe all human maladies can be cured with
a diet of seeds and kale, and for politicians and health-care
bureaucrats most of whom know little of the systems they
manage, but continue to invent and impose nonsensical
policies. Highly entertaining.”
“Another book of interesting cases and more interesting
Characters!! Truly a fun read can hardly wait for the next one...”
Reviews of The Next Casebook

69. Coming Soon…

70. The Last Casebook of Doctor Sababa

71. Where Can I Get the Doctor Sababa
Series?

72. 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