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

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Medical technology meets rural Amish values of simplicity home health remedies and unwavering faith in divine providence when a country-boy-turned-country doctor returns to his roots in Ohio. 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 Lehmans 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 doctors 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. Lehmans distinguished career. Skyhorse Publishing along with our Arcade Good Books Sports Publishing and Yucca imprints is proud to publish a broad range of biographies autobiographies and memoirs. Our list includes biographies on well-known historical figures like Benjamin Franklin Nelson Mandela and Alexander Graham Bell as well as villains from history such as Heinrich Himmler John Wayne Gacy and O. J. Simpson. We have also published survivor stories of World War II memoirs about overcoming adversity first-hand tales of adventure and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.