num_pages: 358
description: From the Back CoverA country-boy-turned-country-doctor goes on house calls among the Amish of eastern Ohio in this warm collection of true-life tales.Alert to his patients' preferences to have their babies born close to home and their illnesses and injuries treated in a home-like atmosphere Dr. Elton Lehman also created a treatment and birthing center in the hills of Wayne County Ohio. From these years of medical technology meeting rural values come these unforgettable stories: - Joe brings his dismembered fingers to the office in a coffee can filled with kerosene; - Dozens of babies are born with Dr. Lehman's help; Katie's little boy is his first at-home birth; - Three-year-old Davy rallies to overcome a life-threatening illness at birth only to be crushed under a tractor wheel;- Barb the Amish leader's wife joins Doc Lehman in an unusual partnership setting aside a bedroom in her own home as an alternative delivery room.Writer Hoover captures in sometimes local vernacular the joys and dilemmas of a family practitioner among a rural and predominantly-Amish community.
language: English
title: House Calls and Hitching Posts
publisher: Good Books