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House calls and hitching posts, stories from Dr. Elton Lehman's career among the Amish, as told to Dorcas Sharp Hoover

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House calls and hitching posts, stories from Dr. Elton Lehman's career among the Amish, as told to Dorcas Sharp Hoover

Language

eng

resource.biographical

autobiography

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illustrationsportraits

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

House calls and hitching posts

Medium

electronic resource eBook

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

as told to Dorcas Sharp Hoover

Sub title

stories from Dr. Elton Lehman's career among the Amish

Summary

Sometimes humorous and often intimate account of Dr. Elton Lehman's 36 years of practicing medicine among the Amish of Wayne County, Ohio

Table Of Contents

The scent of trouble -- A country boy come home -- Patients on the floor! -- Checky and Becky -- Against better knowledge -- Barb's house -- Dogs, bullets and other house call hazards -- Slit throats and office dilemmas -- Quivering sheets and hospital crises -- The case of the rare blood type -- The quandary of the Amish Bishop and the telephone -- "I'm not God!" -- Amish church at Barb's -- My son! -- Twilight rendezvous -- Blizzard babies don't wait -- Coroner duty -- A dog in Doc's bed -- Court order -- Jeep doctor -- Med school memories and mishaps -- Hang in there Barb! -- Doc's Amish Birthing Center -- Zebra-striped toast and contagious contractions -- The mysterious case of Little Boy Blue -- The puzzle of the perplexing pains -- A Jewish Kippah for Doc -- Five small white crosses -- No million-dollar work-up -- The pie takes the prize -- Mountains, music, castles, and caves -- Beyond my dreams

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