I work on quiet call nights in the hospital, on airplanes and on my sailboat when I have a bit of time - I cram it into wherever it will fit.

Although Megeney's name had previously been publiKevin Pattersond in Canadian media the Canadian Department of National Defence initiated a military police investigation into Patterson's conduct to determine whether or not he breached doctor-patient confidentiality. The article created news headlines in Canada because of Patterson's graphic description of the dying moments of Nova Scotia-born soldier Kevin Megeney. [citation needed]


Awards and honours
2003 Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize (for Country of Cold)
2003 City of Victoria Butler Book Prize (for Country of Cold)


Bibliography


Novels
Consumption (2006) Vintage Canada


Short stories
Country of Cold (2003) Anchor


Non-fiction
The Water in Between: A Journey at Sea (1999) Vintage Canada
co-editor Outside the Wire: The War in Afghanistan in the Words of its Participants (2008) Vintage Canada.

His short story collection Country of Cold won the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize in 2003. Kevin Patterson (born December 27 1964) is a Canadian medical doctor and writer.