Recent Press
September 25, 2008
A Closer Look
When Charlotte Hayman called me from Reedville and described the modern-day treasure hunt called “geocaching,” I thought she was nuts. But now that I’ve spent a morning playing the game with Charlotte and her husband, Sonny, I can see why they’re pumped. (article no longer available online)
- The Rapphannock Record Online
January 16, 2008
‘Red Hats’ Want to Help Build Clinic on Tangier Island
The Red Hot Granny's in Newport News are calling on all fellow Red Hat Society members in Hampton Roads to pony up $10 to help build a modern medical clinic on Tangier Island, a isolated community on a tiny spit of land in the Chesapeake Bay.
- The Daily Press
January 14, 2008
Land Bought for Tangier Clinic
Efforts to replace the outdated clinic on Tangier Island moved a step closet to reality today with the announcement that organizers have bought land for the new clinic.
-Richmond Times-Dispatch InRich.com
January 14, 2008
Organizers of a much-needed island medical center reached their first milestone by buying land for the clinic with the help of a $25,000 private grant they announced today. The grant from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation in addition to a portion of $300,000 in state funds the General Assembly earmarked last year enabled the Tangier Island Health Foundation to make the purchase.
-Richmond Times-Dispatch InRich.com
December 26, 2007
Islanders Hope for Modern Clinic
Claudine Eskridge walked into Tangier Island's Gladstone Memorial Medical Center, hoping to walk out free of pain and knowing why her right knee was swollen and her feet throbbed.
- The Daily Press
November 22, 2007
The Rotary Club of West Point welcomed David B. Nichols and James N. Carter, Jr. as speakers at their Nov. 8 meeting. Nichols has been flying to Virginia's Tangier Island once a week for 27 years to care for more than 600 isolated residents. Carter is the Chairman of the Tangier Island Health Foundation.
- RedOrbit.com
January 19, 2007
David Nichols - Doctor Makes Weekly Helicopter Housecall to Island in Need of Help
Twenty-seven years ago, Dr. David Nichols made a promise after he visited the 600 residents of tiny, isolated Tangier Island, just off the coast of Virginia. "I promised them that I would continue to come, and not just come for a year or two as other people have and then leave the patients stranded," Nichols said.
- ABC News Person of the Week
January 2, 2007
Doctor Takes Job to New Heights
The license plate on David Nichols' helicopter reads "DR COPTR." For 27 years, the physician has flown to an isolated island population in the Chesapeake Bay each week to provide care. This fall, his efforts earned him the 2006 Country Doctor of the Year Award from the organization Staff Care.
-USA Today
December 2006
The isolated islanders have medical needs like everyone else. But with only one rundown clinic and weekly visits from Dr. David Nichols, it’s a struggle to care for them. Could help be on the way?
-Chesapeake Life Magazine
December 11, 2006
Tangier Doctor: "This is My Mission"
It’s not easy to earn the trust of the Tangiermen who are often skeptical of outsiders. But Canadian native Dr. David Nichols has become like a celebrity in these parts because he’s kept a promise to provide desperately needed medical care to isolated, rural islanders who would otherwise put their medical needs aside until it was absolutely necessary to be flown or boated to the mainland. (article no longer available online)
- The Daily Times
December 5, 2006
By Plane or Boat, Doctor Makes His Rounds
On a sight seeing trip to Tangier Island, Dr. David Nichols saw a medical mission. A pilot, he started flying in on Thursdays, his day off, and worked in the clinic. At the time, folks thought they had seen his kind before. Well-meaning, but...
- The Virginia Pilot
December 5, 2006
Doctor’s Soaring Loyalty Rewarded
David Nichols flew an airplane every week to practice medicine on Tangier Island until he bought a helicopter to make the commute across the Chesapeake Bay. Now, 27 years after flying into the hearts of island residents, he's been named Country Doctor of the Year for 2006. (article no longer available online)
-Richmond Times Dispatch
July 28, 2006
The Doctor Who Watches Over an Island
It first appears as a smear on the horizon, barely visible through the helicopter's windshield on the hazy expanse of the Chesapeake Bay. Soon an outline emerges, then houses, a church, white picket fences and a weedy, forlorn airstrip.
-The Washington Post
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