Island Practice

by Belluck, Pam

• ISBN13: 9781586487515
• ISBN10: 1586487515
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-06-05
• Publisher: PublicAffairs

Summary

If you need an emergency appendectomy on Nantucket, the man who will perform it knows how to do so with a scalpel he carved himself. Island life is like that: a little unusual, improvised, independent, and outside the mainstream. And Nantucket's only surgeon, Dr. Timothy Lepore, a libertarian gun collector and roadkill collector with unusual views about the practice of medicine, is as idiosyncratic a character as any of his patients. Still, he's the glue that holds healthcare together on this isolated, historically-celebrated island. In Island Practice, award-winning New York Timesreporter Pam Belluck takes readers deeply into Lepore's world, showing what it is like to practice medicine in a unique yet quintessentially American community, filled with independent-minded pioneers who could give a tinker's cuss or a whale's spit what the rest of the country thinks of them.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. ix
A Nice Quiet Island	p. 1
Why Are We Leaving?	p. 21
Cut, Sew, And Tie	p. 33
Moby-Tick	p. 53
In The Blood	p. 77
Mutiny On The Boundaries	p. 93
Arms Against A Sea Of Troubles	p. 113
We Can Handle Weird	p. 127
Family Practice	p. 149
Unmoored Offshore	p. 171
The Fourth Dimension	p. 191
The Lost	p. 211
Waifs And Strays	p. 227
The Life Preserver	p. 247
Acknowledgments	p. 265
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