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Medicine Men: Extreme Appalachian Doctoring (2012)

by Carolyn Jourdan(Favorite Author)

3.66 of 5 Votes: 4

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

Athenaeus Media

review 1: Medicine Men is essentially a collection of anecdotes that author collected through conversations with her father and other doctors who work in the Smoky Mountains. It was ok, but I think it would have been more effective if the author had narrowed her focus a bit. The stories aren't more than a few pages long and the reader never gets to know any of the people in them beyond the very surface level. Because the characters are under developed, they sometimes come off as stereotypical "hillbillies," which I don't think was the author's intent. Similarly, the "humor" in the book often comes across as an educated person looking down at the ignorance of the people she describes.
review 2: An attorney for a US Senate Committee returns home to help her father, a d... moreoctor in the Smokey Mountains of East Tennessee, following an illness of her mother's. What was to have been a stay of a few days turns into years. She never does return to Washington. Her father and other rural doctors tell her stories of memorable encounters with patients over decades and she records them in this funny account of doctoring at its best. I highly recommend this book. less

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