Island Practice: Cobblestone Rash, Underground Tom, and Other Adventures of a Nantucket Doctor
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| Rating | : | 4.67 (865 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1610392450 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 304 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-01-18 |
| Language | : | English |
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A natural storyteller with a reporter’s eye for detail and a stand-up comic’s dry wit, Belluck leaves the reader with an urge to feign illness just to have an excuse to visit her subject. Inspiring and entertaining, Lepore ’s story and his beloved island come to life in Belluck’s hands.”Publisher’s Weekly A vibrant, throbbing, and sometimes painful book about life on an island and all the messiness that goes along with helping people through hard times if you’re the local doctor. Island Practice is chock full of colorful anecdotes of island life, humor, empathy, color ful and sometimes X-rated medical emergencies, and the mundane that make up the life of a country, or island, doctor.”Nantucket Inquirer and Mirror Funny, startling, and sobering by turns.”Columbus Dispatch This is a riveting portrait of a dynamic, headstrong physician. Tim Lepore is your man.”D
Amazon Customer said Amusing summer read!. Appealing true story of a kooky but very fine Doctor who takes care of Nantucketers and who is an amazing diagnostician!. "Great read with insights into the questions of medical care in the future" according to Westport Reader. Island Practice is tale of quirkiness and peculiarities as well as nuanced reporting on moral and political issues like abortion, substance abuse, suicide and, especially, medical care as it has been practiced, but perhaps, may not be in the future. Belluck's description of the Nantucket's only surgeon's behavior gives insights about. Couldn't put it down curiositykeeper I couldn't put this book down. Granted, I'm a Nantucketer, so it was especially riveting to read about people I know or might know in the future, and to find out more about Dr. Lepore. But even with that added interest, this was a truly interesting and well written book. It never seemed to bog down in too much detail, or be too sketc
A baby with toe-tourniquet syndrome, a human leg that’s washed ashore, a horse with Lyme disease, a narcoleptic falling face-first in the street, a hermit living underground—hardly anything is off-limits for Dr. Timothy J. When crisis strikes, he’s deeply involved.He’s treated Jimmy Buffett, Chris Matthews, and various Kennedy relatives, but he makes house calls for anyone and lets people pay him nothing—or anything: oatmeal raisin cookies, a weather-beaten .44 Magnum, a picture of a Nepalese shaman.Lepore can be controversial and contradictory, espousing conservative views while performing abortions and giving patients marijuana cookies. He has unusual hobbies: he’s a gun fanatic, roadkill collector, and concocter of pastimes like knitting dog-hair sweaters.Ultimately, Island Practice is about a doctor utterly essential to a community at a time when medicine is increasingly money-driven and impersonal. Can he remain a maverick even as a healthca