Medicine Men: Extreme Appalachian Doctoring - Softcover

Jourdan, Carolyn

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0988564319 ISBN 13: 9780988564312

Publisher: Jourdain-Michael, 2012

Synopsis

#5 in the USA Wall Street Journal Best Seller in 2014
#6 in the USA Wall Street Journal Best Seller in 2015
Chosen for 15 Books Every Healthcare Professional Should Read byPhysicians Weekly.

Medicine Men is an extraordinary collection of the most memorable moments from a dozen old-school rural physicians who each practiced medicine for more than 50 years in the Southern Appalachian Mountains.

It contains hilarious, heroic, and heartwarming true stories of miracle cures, ghost dogs, and much madcap medical mayhem.

Quotations in the book are rendered as they were spoken in real-life Appalachian dialect.

Medicine Men is the follow on to Heart in the Right Place which was a #7 in the USA Wall Street Journal best seller in 2012 and #9 in the USA Wall Street Journal best seller in 2017.

Carolyn Jourdan is a USA Today, Audible, and 5-time Wall Street Journal bestselling author with multiple award-winning books about the Smoky Mountains, Appalachia, Medicine, Mystery, and Wildlife, such as Heart in the Right Place, Medicine Men, Out on a Limb, and Breakdown on Blowhard Mountain.

About this title

About the Author:

Carolyn is a former U.S. Senate Counsel to the Committee on Environment and Public Works and the Committee on Governmental Affairs. She has degrees from the University of Tennessee in Biomedical Engineering and Law. Carolyn lives on the family farm in Strawberry Plains, Tennessee, with many stray animals.

Review:

PRAISE FOR CAROLYN JOURDAN [Heart in the Right Place]

• #7 Wall Street Journal Bestseller and #1 Amazon Bestseller
• Chosen as first ever Book of the Month by Family Circle magazine
• Awarded Readers Prize by Elle magazine
• Featured selection of most major national book clubs
• Best Book of the Year Literary Guild
• Best Book Club Book of the Year American Booksellers Association
• Great Books About Extraordinary People Great Books, Great Libraries
• Great Read Great Readers Advisory 
• Top 5 Most Fun Book Ever Shelf Awareness
• Top Summer Read New York Public Library
• Starred Review in Publishers Weekly -- "Jourdan's dispatches from the reception desk make for a stirring, beautiful memoir that is alternately hilarious and heartbreaking, and ultimately a triumph."
• "This is a soul-touching memoir filled with memorable Southern characters, plus plenty of country humor, but mostly a memoir about character -- the transformative power of selfless acts in forgotten places far from the spotlight." John Marshall --Seattle Post-Intelligencer
• "Heartwarming, funny and utterly appealing." Fannie Flagg -- Author of Fried Green Tomatoes
• "This is a wonderful book. I would have enjoyed it even if Carolyn wasn't a neighbor of mine in East Tennessee. She is a great writer." Dolly Parton -- Singer, Songwriter, and Actress

About this edition

• Publisher: Jourdain-Michael
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0988564319
• ISBN 13: 9780988564312
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 6
• Number of pages: 168