House Calls and Hitching Posts
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| Rating | : | 4.84 (774 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1561484385 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 358 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-10-16 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
And three-year-old Davy rallies to overcome a life-threatening illness at birth only to be crushed under a tractor wheel. Joe brings his dismembered fingers to the office in a coffee can filled with kerosene. Medical technology meets rural values of simplicity, home health remedies, and unwavering faith in divine providence when a country-boy-turned-country-doctor returns to his roots. Simpson. J. Our list includes biographies on well-known historical figures like Benjamin Franklin, Nelson Mandela, and Alexander Graham Bell, as well as villains from history, such as Heinrich Himmler, John Wayne Gacy, and O. We have also published survivor stories of World War II, memoirs about overcoming adversity, first-hand tales of adventure, and much more. Katie delivers a boy for the doctor's first home-birth. Hoover captures in sometimes local vernacular the joys and dilemmas of a family practitioner among a rural and predominantly-Amish community. House Calls and Hitching Posts is a sometimes humorous and often intimate account of Dr. Includes two galleries of photographs from Dr. Lehman's distinguished career.Skyhorse Publishing, along with our Arcade, Good Books, Sports Publishing, and Yucca imprints, is p
"Vicki" according to V. Temple. House Calls and Hitching Posts is a delightful book. Through the amazing stories of Dr. Lehman's practice among the Amish and Mennonites of Wayne County and surrounding area, you get an inside look at the close knit community that "Englishers" rarely see. Dr. Lehman finds that his medical school training has not prepared him for the practice he begins among the Amish as a country doctor. He must become flexible and learn the plain ways of people he will come to love.. Dorothy Coddington said Five Stars. great book. Joan D. Stauber said HOUSE CALLS AND HITCHING POST. VERY GOOD STORY OF A COUNRTY DOCTOR-THE AMISH CUMMUNITY-HIS MANY HOUSE CALLS AND THE GREAT NUMBER OF BABIES HE DELIVERED OVER HIS YEARS OF BEING A DOCTOR-A VERY DEDICATED AND HONORED DOCTOR-GREAT READING
From these years of medical technology meeting rural values come these unforgettable stories: - Joe brings his dismembered fingers to the office in a coffee can filled with kerosene; - Dozens of babies are born with Dr. Writer Hoover captures in sometimes local vernacular the joys and dilemmas of a family practitioner among a rural and predominantly-Amish community.. From the Back CoverA country-boy-turned-country-doctor goes on house calls among the Amish of eastern Ohio in this warm collection of true-life tales.Alert to his patients' preferences to have their babies born close to home, and their illnesses and injuries treated in a home-like atmosphere, Dr. Elton Lehman also created a treatment and birthing center in the hills of Wayne County, Ohio. Lehman's help; Katie's little boy is his first at-home birth; - Three-year-old
At every delivery, he always had a new story to tell. . Dr. Elton Lehman delivered four of the Hoovers’ six children in the birthing center he designed. Lehman would reply, “Yes, but I’m not a writer.” And then, Dr. House Calls and Hitching Posts is Dorcas’ fourth book. Lehman, you need to write a book!”