Koop: The Memoirs of America's Family Doctor

By C. Everett Koop

Book Overview

The former U.S. Surgeon General offers a compelling and candid account of his life in a stunning portrait of growing up in early 20th-century America, a rare glimpse of a great surgeon in the making, an honest and sometimes shocking tale of how Washington politics can undermine the public's health (Timothy Johnson, M.D., Medical Editor, ABC News). Photographs.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0061042498
• ISBN13: 9780061042492
• Release Date: March 1993
• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Length: 445 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.0" x 0.5" x 4.3"

Customer Reviews

Yes

For anyone who is a physician, this is a wonderful book with great anecdotes. I gave a copy to my daughter, who's in med school.

Anything but boring

C. Everett Koop is a man of strong opinions and firm actions, yet who places high value in attempting to be fair in his judgments. This book of memoirs tells the story of a courageous and admirable man's career, focusing most of the text on his eight years as surgeon general. I found the book very easy to read, not tedious or pedantic, and I give it a rating of 9 instead of a 10 because I wish he would have devoted a little more space to his career in pediatric surgery (which lasted 35 years). It's good reading.