House Calls and Hitching Posts: Stories from Dr. Elton Lehman's Career Among the Amish

Lehman, Dr. Elton, as Told to Dorcas Sharp Hoover

ISBN 10: 1561484385 / ISBN 13: 9781561484386

Published by Good Books, Intercourse, 2004

About this Item

An intimate, touching, sometimes sad, sometimes humorous account of Dr. Lehman's thirty-six years as a family practitioner in the rural and largely Amish community of Wayne County, Ohio. Size: Large Octavo.

Seller Inventory # 01088217

Bibliographic Details

• Title: House Calls and Hitching Posts: Stories from Dr. Elton Lehman's Career Among the Amish
• Publisher: Good Books, Intercourse
• Publication Date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1561484385
• ISBN 13: 9781561484386
• Binding: Hard Cover
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
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Synopsis

          Medical technology meets rural values of simplicity, home health remedies, and unwavering faith in divine providence when a country-boy-turned-country-doctor returns to his roots. House Calls and Hitching Posts is a sometimes humorous and often intimate account of Dr. Elton Lehman's 36 years practicing medicine among the Amish of Wayne, Holmes, and surrounding counties in Ohio, for which he was named Country Doctor of the Year.           Now you can witness house calls and private moments between doctors and patients. Joe brings his dismembered fingers to the office in a coffee can filled with kerosene. Katie delivers a boy for the doctor's first home-birth. And three-year-old Davy rallies to overcome a life-threatening illness at birth only to be crushed under a tractor wheel. Hoover captures in sometimes local vernacular the joys and dilemmas of a family practitioner among a rural and predominantly-Amish community. Includes two galleries of photographs from Dr. Lehman's distinguished career.

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About the Author

Dorcas Hoover lives with her husband, Jerry, and their family in Dover, Ohio. Dr. Lehman delivered four of her six children. House Calls and Hitching Posts is Dorcas' fourth book.