Medicine Men Extreme Appalachian Doctoring eBook Carolyn Jourdan
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A Wall Street Journal Top-10 Best Seller in 2014 & 2015 and an “All-Star"
"Medicine Men" is the follow-on to "Heart in the Right Place.” Both books are Wall Street Journal bestsellers and ranked #1 on in Biography, Memoir, Science, and Medicine.
“Medicine Men" is an extraordinary collection of the most memorable moments from old-school rural physicians who each practiced medicine for more than 50 years in the Southern Appalachian Mountains.
It contains hilarious, heroic, and heartwarming true stories of miracle cures, ghost dogs, and much madcap medical mayhem. Quotations in the book are rendered as they were spoken - in real-life Appalachian dialect.
Jourdan's work is often compared to James Herriot and Bill Bryson. Her books are on hundreds of lists of best books of the year, funniest books, and best book club books.
Medicine Men Extreme Appalachian Doctoring eBook Carolyn Jourdan
You can't make this stuff up! For those, like me, who live and love this region of the U.S., there are no surprises. It's about a place south of the sweet-tea line (that place where waitresses ask you if you want tea but tell you that you have to sweeten it yourself). Here, we have friends with names like Snake, Rabbit, or Turtle. We all have heard accounts of highly successful doctors who chose to practice in the area when they could have made their fortunes as specialists in cities just minutes or hours away. This is a wonderful collection of such stories and a tribute to the unselfishness and humanity of these professionals.Product details
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Medicine Men Extreme Appalachian Doctoring eBook Carolyn Jourdan Reviews
When I first started to read this book I was excited and could not wait. But at first I was a little disappointed the writing on the page was sparse and not much to the first couple of stories. The book styed that way but it reminded me about some of writing in Readers Digest with short simple stories. There are good stories about literally backwoods doctors whose patients who have little or no money the things they received in payment are interesting like a fresh still warm fox the product of roadkill. This book is worth the read you can read this probably in 1 to 2 hours if you got the time. I would have rated it 4 1/2 if you could give 1/2 stars.
I am from eastern Kentucky, about 80 miles from the area the author returns to in her book. I got the book with an expectation of reading a book about the folks "back home"... and it was.. but, what a wonderful surprise this lady is as an author! Vernon Edwards and Carolyn Jourdan are my two favorite authors. This book will make you laugh out loud, cry without embarrassment, and educate you on the ways of humble people just trying to eke out a living in the best way they know how. Her writing is remarkable from all perspectives and I hated to move quickly through the book because I did not want it to end. But, you can read this over time without frustration or at a single sitting with great joy. I wish she had started writing decades ago so that we, her eager readers, could enjoy her skills over and over and over.
Carolyn Jourdan writes about a vanishing breed of doctors who not only made house calls, but also risked life and limb to care for isolated folks in nearly inaccessible parts of eastern Tennessee. Most of the doctors that she interviewed for "Medicine Men" are gone now. But they left behind stories as touching as the heroic World War II vet who was convinced the Marines were after him for desertion - or as hilarious as the woman in childbirth whose filthy bed in a remote mountain shack was guarded by her vicious pet groundhogs. You won't find such extraordinary true tales anywhere else, and Jourdan - who was born and raised in eastern Tennessee, and returned from a cushy Washington, D.C. job to live in the area once again - creates wonderfully rich and sympathetic portraits of larger-than-life physicians and patients alike. Don't miss this gem - or I might just have to sic a groundhog on you.
- Bob Tarte, Author of "Kitty Cornered" and "Enslaved by Ducks"
It does seem that the more modern medicine advances in technology, the further it retreats from the true meaning of healing--treating, and knowing and loving and respecting the *whole patient*, including the person, the place, the circumstances, the life being lived or, in some cases, the life being eased to its end. These old doctors knew that, and lived it, right alongside their patients, and Carolyn captures it in vignettes that will make you laugh, smile, tear up, sit stunned for a moment, and remember forever.
Unlike her brilliant first book, "Heart in the Right Place," in which the author herself was smack in the middle of the action, in "Medicine Men," Carolyn mostly steps aside and lets her subjects star in their own delightful tales. Such a subtle and deft, light touch upon this type of storytelling is a rare talent in itself and she masters it. This is an author I will definitely collect. And heartily recommend. And await the next book in gleeful and less than patient (err, so to speak) anticipation!
A very heartwarming book full of little tales about various Appalachian Doctors over the past century. The author is the daughter of one of the old doctors of the Appalachians. The stories are very believable and will easily transport you back to a time when doctors actually made house calls.. even to homes that were way out in the middle of nowhere. These were men who were true healers. Doctors who cared deeply about the health of their patients. Many times.. accepting no pay at all.. or taking nearly anything the family had to offer.. even if it was a pet raccoon! I loved the story about the fellow who left the Appalachians and made quite a success out of himself.. then.. came back to pay for not only his OWN birth.. but, that of all of his siblings.. Nearly three decades later! Stories like that.. just give you such a warm feeling! Excellent book!! One that I'd highly recommend to anyone that needs a lift to their spirits.. and to restore their faith in mankind!
This is a collection of brief anecdotes based on interviews with seasoned rural doctors. It is poignant, heartwarming, sad,funny. It is a quick read.
I would have preferred a bit more depth. There were many of the stories where I wanted to know what happened next. I also wanted to know more about the people who live in this part of the country.
I'm not sorry I spent the time reading this book, I just wish there had been more to it.
You can't make this stuff up! For those, like me, who live and love this region of the U.S., there are no surprises. It's about a place south of the sweet-tea line (that place where waitresses ask you if you want tea but tell you that you have to sweeten it yourself). Here, we have friends with names like Snake, Rabbit, or Turtle. We all have heard accounts of highly successful doctors who chose to practice in the area when they could have made their fortunes as specialists in cities just minutes or hours away. This is a wonderful collection of such stories and a tribute to the unselfishness and humanity of these professionals.
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