num_pages: 176
description: In this memoir of nearly a hundred years of medicine, the reader is infected with the same germ of discovery that afflicted the author. Suffused with the development of healing in the specific place of Wilmington, Ohio, and it’s environs, it is also a paean to a charmed smalltown existence that may no longer exist. Dr. Hale’s portrait is filled with a vast panoply of bird dogs, horsemen, chickens, taxi drivers, storytellers, explorers—all manner of implausible and impertinent smalltown characters both living and dead. His warm, evocative book makes the reader yearn for such a place as well as such a voyage, one which has been so full, so productive, and, finally, so incredibly alive.
language: English
title: Cut Boldly Down: Medicine, Nature, and a Life of Curiosity : A Surgeon's Memoir
titlecomplete: Cut Boldly Down: Medicine, Nature, and a Life of Curiosity : A Surgeon's Memoir
ratings_count: 1
publisher: Orange Frazer Pr Inc