Island Practice: Cobblestone Rash, Underground Tom, and Other Adventures of a Nantucket Doctor
Autor Pam Bellucken Limba Engleză Paperback – 24 iun 2013
With
a
Foreword
by
Nathaniel
Philbrick,
author
of
the
bestsellerIn
the
Heart
of
the
Sea
If you need an appendectomy, he can do it with a stone scalpel he carved himself. If you have a condition nobody can diagnose—“creeping eruption” perhaps—he can identify what it is, and treat it. 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. Lepore.
This is the spirited, true story of a colorful, contrarian doctor on the world-famous island of Nantucket. Thirty miles out to sea, in a strikingly offbeat place known for wealthy summer people but also home to independent-minded, idiosyncratic year-rounders, Lepore holds the life of the island, often quite literally, in his hands. He’s surgeon, medical examiner, football team doctor, tick expert, unofficial psychologist, accidental homicide detective, occasional veterinarian. 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 Practiceis 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 healthcare chain subsumes his hospital? Every community has—or, some would say, needs—a Doctor Lepore, and his island’s drive to retain individuality in a cookie-cutter world is echoed across the country.
If you need an appendectomy, he can do it with a stone scalpel he carved himself. If you have a condition nobody can diagnose—“creeping eruption” perhaps—he can identify what it is, and treat it. 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. Lepore.
This is the spirited, true story of a colorful, contrarian doctor on the world-famous island of Nantucket. Thirty miles out to sea, in a strikingly offbeat place known for wealthy summer people but also home to independent-minded, idiosyncratic year-rounders, Lepore holds the life of the island, often quite literally, in his hands. He’s surgeon, medical examiner, football team doctor, tick expert, unofficial psychologist, accidental homicide detective, occasional veterinarian. 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 Practiceis 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 healthcare chain subsumes his hospital? Every community has—or, some would say, needs—a Doctor Lepore, and his island’s drive to retain individuality in a cookie-cutter world is echoed across the country.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781610392457
ISBN-10: 1610392450
Pagini: 304
Ilustrații: none
Dimensiuni: 140 x 210 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.3 kg
Ediția:First Trade Paper Edition
Editura: PublicAffairs
Colecția PublicAffairs
ISBN-10: 1610392450
Pagini: 304
Ilustrații: none
Dimensiuni: 140 x 210 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.3 kg
Ediția:First Trade Paper Edition
Editura: PublicAffairs
Colecția PublicAffairs
Notă biografică
Pam
Belluckhas
been
a
staff
writer
for
theNew
York
Timesfor
more
than
fifteen
years,
during
which
she
has
written
about
everything
from
cattle
rustling
to
embryo
adoption,
reported
from
places
as
diverse
as
Medellin,
Colombia,
and
Seongham,
South
Korea.
She
served
for
more
than
a
decade
as
national
bureau
chief,
covering
some
of
the
biggest
stories
for
the
paper.
She
is
currently
a
health
and
medical
writer
for
theTimes.
She
has
won
several
awards,
a
Knight
Fellowship,
and
a
Fulbright
Scholarship.
Recenzii
“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
Practiceis
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. Medical nonfiction fans will find much to enjoy. Lepore may remind readers of Dr. Paul Farmer from Tracy Kidder'sMountains Beyond Mountains.”—Library Journal
“Thank goodness for writers like Pam Belluck who, inIsland Practice, presents Dr. Tim Lepore, a cross between Marcus Welby and Hawkeye Pierce of M*A*S*H fame. . . .Island Practiceis a work of evocative imagery and human description. It is readable, captivating, and almost cautionary in its description of what we have lost in today's world of medicine. Author Pam Belluck has integrated medical, personal, and family issues into a fascinating portrait of a remarkable man.”—New York Journal of Books
“Through the improbable story of an eccentric and intensely creative Nantucket doctor—the man has operated with flints!—Pam Belluck has crafted an elegant and wildly entertaining depiction of the struggle to maintain humanity and empathy in the face of health care 's ongoing industrialization. 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. A truly wonderful read.”—Warren St. John, author ofRammer Jammer Yellow HammerandOutcasts United
“If you want to understand the ‘real' Nantucket, you must readIsland Practice. Dr. Tim Lepore personifies the island's fierce, quirky, and independent spirit. This is a book about an extraordinary man—a doctor, yes, but also a community hero. His story is as engrossing as the best fiction . . . but it's all true.”—Elin Hilderbrand, author ofSilver Girland other novels
“[An] absorbing debut. . . . An intriguing biography of a unique—and on Nantucket, irreplaceable—doctor.”—Kirkus
“Page-turning prose. . . . Inspiring and entertaining, Lepore 's story and his beloved island come to life in Belluck's hands.”—Publisher's Weekly
“[Belluck is] an energetic reporter who found in Lepore an irresistible subject.”—New York Times Book Review
“A fun profile of Nantucket's gun-toting, marijuana-prescribing, house-call-making local doc.”—Peoplemagazine
“Throughout, Belluck's prose is beautiful and lyrical . . . the Lepore she gives us is a fascinating character.”—Boston Globe
“Island Practiceis a thorough dissection of a man doing his best to stand up to impersonal twenty-first-century medical practices. . . . What's more, the book sketches a complex portrait of Nantucket itself—the stuff you won't see inFrommer's—that makes you glad that at least one guy is ready for anything.”—Minneapolis Star Tribune
“[I]ntriguing cases handled by Lepore are described in the new bookIsland Practice, written by Pam Belluck, aNew York Timeshealth writer.”—msnbc.com
“New York Timeswriter Pam Belluck . . . clearly knew great material when she found it.”—Nantucket Chronicle
“Island Practicegives readers an inside look at the peculiar challenges of health care on the island while reflecting on those that all communities face.”—Boston Globe's“White Coat Notes”
“Funny, startling, and sobering by turns.”—Columbus Dispatch
“This is a riveting portrait of a dynamic, headstrong physician. Medical nonfiction fans will find much to enjoy. Lepore may remind readers of Dr. Paul Farmer from Tracy Kidder'sMountains Beyond Mountains.”—Library Journal
“Thank goodness for writers like Pam Belluck who, inIsland Practice, presents Dr. Tim Lepore, a cross between Marcus Welby and Hawkeye Pierce of M*A*S*H fame. . . .Island Practiceis a work of evocative imagery and human description. It is readable, captivating, and almost cautionary in its description of what we have lost in today's world of medicine. Author Pam Belluck has integrated medical, personal, and family issues into a fascinating portrait of a remarkable man.”—New York Journal of Books
“Through the improbable story of an eccentric and intensely creative Nantucket doctor—the man has operated with flints!—Pam Belluck has crafted an elegant and wildly entertaining depiction of the struggle to maintain humanity and empathy in the face of health care 's ongoing industrialization. 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. A truly wonderful read.”—Warren St. John, author ofRammer Jammer Yellow HammerandOutcasts United
“If you want to understand the ‘real' Nantucket, you must readIsland Practice. Dr. Tim Lepore personifies the island's fierce, quirky, and independent spirit. This is a book about an extraordinary man—a doctor, yes, but also a community hero. His story is as engrossing as the best fiction . . . but it's all true.”—Elin Hilderbrand, author ofSilver Girland other novels
“[An] absorbing debut. . . . An intriguing biography of a unique—and on Nantucket, irreplaceable—doctor.”—Kirkus
“Page-turning prose. . . . Inspiring and entertaining, Lepore 's story and his beloved island come to life in Belluck's hands.”—Publisher's Weekly
“If
you
were
as
entranced
as
I
was
with
John
Berendt'sMidnight
in
the
Garden
of
Good
and
Eviland
Susan
Orlean'sThe
Orchid
Thief,
you'll
find
similar
pleasures
inIsland
Practice.”—Huntington
News
“Much in this book by Pam Belluck comes as a revelation. Some of it is fascinating; some of it is hilarious; and some of it is sad and very troubling. In Island Practice, Belluck has created a remarkable portrait of a physician and the island community to which he remains steadfastly devoted.”—from the Foreword by Nathaniel Philbrick, author ofIn the Heart of the SeaandThe Last Stand
“Pam Belluck has dissected the antics and heroism of a Nantucket doctor who doubles as the resident wizard. This physician not only makes house calls (even to tree-houses), but also invites patients to drop in at his house for treatment. If you suffer from Nantucket Fever—or any other ill while on that island—Dr. Tim Lepore is your man.”—Dava Sobel, author ofLongitudeandGalileo's Daughter
“Much in this book by Pam Belluck comes as a revelation. Some of it is fascinating; some of it is hilarious; and some of it is sad and very troubling. In Island Practice, Belluck has created a remarkable portrait of a physician and the island community to which he remains steadfastly devoted.”—from the Foreword by Nathaniel Philbrick, author ofIn the Heart of the SeaandThe Last Stand
“Pam Belluck has dissected the antics and heroism of a Nantucket doctor who doubles as the resident wizard. This physician not only makes house calls (even to tree-houses), but also invites patients to drop in at his house for treatment. If you suffer from Nantucket Fever—or any other ill while on that island—Dr. Tim Lepore is your man.”—Dava Sobel, author ofLongitudeandGalileo's Daughter
“[Belluck is] an energetic reporter who found in Lepore an irresistible subject.”—New York Times Book Review
“A fun profile of Nantucket's gun-toting, marijuana-prescribing, house-call-making local doc.”—Peoplemagazine
“Throughout, Belluck's prose is beautiful and lyrical . . . the Lepore she gives us is a fascinating character.”—Boston Globe
“Island Practiceis a thorough dissection of a man doing his best to stand up to impersonal twenty-first-century medical practices. . . . What's more, the book sketches a complex portrait of Nantucket itself—the stuff you won't see inFrommer's—that makes you glad that at least one guy is ready for anything.”—Minneapolis Star Tribune
“[I]ntriguing cases handled by Lepore are described in the new bookIsland Practice, written by Pam Belluck, aNew York Timeshealth writer.”—msnbc.com
“New York Timeswriter Pam Belluck . . . clearly knew great material when she found it.”—Nantucket Chronicle
“Island Practicegives readers an inside look at the peculiar challenges of health care on the island while reflecting on those that all communities face.”—Boston Globe's“White Coat Notes”