Cut Boldly Down: Medicine, Nature, and a Life of Curiosity: A Surgeons Memoir

In this memoir of medicine, the reader is infected with the same germ of discovery that afflicted the author. Suffused with the development of healing in Wilmington and Clinton County, Ohio, it is also a paean to a charmed smalltown existence thatMoreIn this memoir of medicine, the reader is infected with the same germ of discovery that afflicted the author. Suffused with the development of healing in Wilmington and Clinton County, Ohio, it is also a paean to a charmed smalltown existence that may no longer exist. Dr. Hales 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, and handsome photographs (including a jar of tonsils containing most of Clinton Countys DNA) make the reader yearn for such a place as well as such a voyage -- one so full, so productive, and, finally, so incredibly alive.