Contagion Chaser​
The Story of an Infectious Disease Detective

​ Picking up where his previous book, Rescues from the Sky, left off, Contagion Chaser details Dr. Lee F. Walters’ transition from saving lives at sea as part of an air medical rescue team with the US Coast Guard to becoming an infectious disease “detective” who fights contagious diseases trying to save lives.       Starting with a one-year medical residency at the University of Wisconsin, he moved on to a two-year fellowship in infectious disease at the University of Vermont before beginning private practice in Arizona, which lasted over two decades. 

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​Although the infectious disease practice in which Walters engaged was a far cry from the highly dramatic and potentially life threatening rescues described in the first book, this memoir offers a different type of adrenaline rush as he seeks to discover the causes of various mystery diseases and find a treatment before it’s too late. With his patients’ lives often hanging in the balance, it’s an emotional journey that frequently leaves Walters feeling discouraged and depressed as his patients die due to lack of available treatments, especially when the HIV/AIDS pandemic hits in 1981. Supporting him throughout his investigations is the love of his life, Cara. Their relationship provides a heartfelt and romantic counterpoint to the heavy emotional burden of Lee’s work.

​​Rescues from the Sky
True Stories of the Air Medical Rescue Teams of the US Coast Guard who risk
their lives to save others as seen through the eyes of a newly trained flight surgeon  from 1971-1973 at  US Coast Guard Air station, San Francisco

Rescues from the Sky features the true stories of the US Coast Guard Aviation Medical Rescue Service as seen through the eyes of a wet-behind-the-ears flight surgeon fresh out of training. The events it recounts took place during the author’s experience while stationed at US Coast Guard Air Station San Francisco from 1971 to 1973. The rescues are described in detail and include, among others:
- The crash of a 747 on the runway on the author’s first day of work
- The hijacking of a 737 by two Bulgarians
- The rescue of a woman bleeding from an abortion performed on a Russian submarine
- Saving the life of a sailboat owner in Half Moon Bay who had a heart attack and fell unconscious while sailing in thirty-mile-per-hour winds toward a rocky shore
- Rescuing a Czech crewman who developed appendicitis fifty miles at sea in a storm with fifty-five mile-per-hour winds

Intersecting the dramatic rescues is a love story between the author and a young nurse and how their medical careers get in the way of their growing need to be together. The book also traces the author’s training that led to his becoming a flight surgeon prior to his tour of duty. 

Though written under a pseudonym for personal reasons, this is a work of non-fiction that has been approved by the Motion Picture and Television Office of the United States Coast Guard. Several of the incidents recounted are also well documented in newspapers from the era. This book is ideal for anyone who likes adventure, excitement, humor, emergency medicine, aviation adventure, a tender love story, or all of the above.​

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About Dr. Lee F. Walters

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 then DR. LEE F. WALTERS, MD, FACP, is a recently retired infectious disease physician. His educational journey began at Davidson College in Charlotte, NC. He went on to graduate from the University of Virginia Medical School and interned there as well. This was followed by a medical residency at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, a fellowship in infectious disease at the University of Vermont, and over two decades of practice as an infectious disease specialist in Phoenix, AZ. He then completed two more decades of practice on the East Coast, finishing his ID career in North Carolina with Atrium Health System in Charlotte. Contagion Chaser is Lee’s second book. His first book, Rescues from the Sky (2020) recounts the dramatic adventures in medical rescues that he experienced while stationed at the US Coast Guard air station in San Francisco. Lee now lives in Charlotte, NC, with his wife of thirty-nine years. He has four daughters and six grandchildren.
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