Island Practice: Cobblestone Rash, Underground Tom, and Other Adventures of a Nantucket Doctor

by Pam Belluck

Book Overview

With a Foreword by Nathaniel Philbrick, author of the bestseller In 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1610392450
• ISBN13: 9781610392457
• Release Date: June 2013
• Publisher: PublicAffairs
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.5" x 8.1"