Arnold Tweed

Arnold Tweed is a retired anesthesiologist who lives with his wife, Glenyce, in Toronto. He was raised on a Manitoba farm and considers himself a son of the soil, once removed. His grounding in rural life was solidified by the one-room country schools that he attended for the first seven years of his education. Although rural Manitoba beckoned him, he got side-tracked and graduated with an MD from the University of Manitoba in 1964. His medical career has included general practice, emergency medicine, intensive care and anesthesiology, and has been interspersed with medical research, teaching and medical administration- and more recently, writing his memoirs. His first book, Medical Misadventures, describes some of his unusual medical encounters and his second book, Glendenning Days draws on his memories and traces his family's migrations to western Canada and describes his boyhood on the farm. Arnold and Glenyce return every summer to their summer home on Pelican Lake for a dose of fresh country air and spiritual renewal.