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Tales from Kentucky Doctors

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The nearly 350 humorous, heartwarming, and every so often tragic accounts presented in William Lynwood Montell’s up to date book, Tales from Kentucky Doctors, offer an abnormal perspective on the culture and tradition of Kentucky health-care practice. From the laughable to the laudable, Tales from Kentucky Doctors present illuminating portraits of doctors and patients, drawing stories from physicians with lifetimes of experience serving Kentucky families. In chapter 2, doctors recall the successes and screw ups that shaped their early careers. For Dr. Baretta R. Casey of Hazard, becoming a doctor used to be a difficult journey. Already married and with a child, Casey enrolled in college at age thirty, later completed medical school, and began a successful career as a circle of relatives practitioner in the 1990s. Though patient visitations and doctors’ prescriptions are recorded on account ledgers, personal relationships and memories aren’t a part of medical records. The section “Personal Practice” gives a glimpse of the intimate relationships doctors form with their communities. “I doubt that any individual used to be nearer to the circle of relatives than the circle of relatives doctor,” Dr. W. L. Tyler says in one story. For lots of towns, circle of relatives physicians were heroes. Dr. James S. Brashear relates the challenges of practicing in Central City, a coal mining town, recalling an incident in which he saved the lives of two miners. Handed down to Montell in the oral tradition, the tales presented in this collection represent each a part of the state. Personal experiences, humorous anecdotes, and local legends make it a fascinating panorama of Kentucky physicians and of the communities they served.

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