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 Author Name: R. E. Losee, M.D.
Title: DOC: THEN & NOW WITH A MONTANA PHYSICIAN
Binding: Paperback
Type: BOOK
Publisher: GLOBE PEQUOT ( THE LYONS PRESS
ISBN Number: 159228194X / 9781592281947
Seller ID: 1028367
Engaging memoir about Losee, a Yale Medical School graduate who, in 1949, headed west with his family to Ennis, Montana, to settle down & practice medicine. B&W photos; 6x9 inches, 224 pgs.
'Doc is an engaging memoir from Ron Losee, a Yale Medical School graduate who, in 1949, headed west with his wife, Olive, and their two-year-old daughter to find a place to settle down and practice medicine. The four hundred townspeople of Ennis, Montana, needed a doctor, and Ronald E. Losee, M.D. became 'Doc.'
Losee's patients are a broad panoply of characters. Townspeople, cattle ranchers and migrant workers, miners and fly fishermen, new mothers and old folks'each, in his or her own way, preserving an American way of life that is rapidly vanishing. With them, Losee learns from his failures and rejoices in his triumphs. He stays up all night before each delivery, worrying through every possibility of disaster; performs appendectomies on a rickety operating-room table; repairs fractured tibiae; and even amputates a leg with a common hacksaw.
His voice is all his own'real, earthy, outspoken, robust. Ron Losee has written a moving account of his doctoring years, evoking the feel of small-town life, the pioneering spirit of the West, the myriad moral dilemmas a rural doctor faces, and the courage and commitment that are at the heart of his medicine.
WHAT THE EXPERTS ARE SAYING:
'A giant of a story by and of a giant of a man. I enjoyed it immensely.'
'John A. Feagin Jr., M.D., Duke University Medical Center
'These memoirs . . . combine compassion with pragmatism, humor and captivating storytelling.' 'Publishers Weekly
'Doc is a great book; it brings back the good old times when doctor'patient relationships were close . . . The many patient histories and anecdotes make lively reading. The value of the book is in its recording of the way medicine was traditionally practiced.'
'Hans Kraus, M.D.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
R. E. Losee, M.D. has been practicing medicine since the 1940s. He has written articles for professional medical journals, including the Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery and Clinical Orthopaedics. 'Doc' still lives in Ennis, Montana'and he still drives that marvelous Jeep in which he first drove from New York State to the West.
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