Written by a retired physician, a gifted story-teller, this book provides glimpses of 8 decades of living and half a century of medicine, divided between rural general practice and hospital emergency departments. In vignettes, narrative, and essays, it portrays a way of being in the world, of living medicine as an art. "General practice" no longer exists, yet the relationship between patient and primary care physician is still the heart of health care.

I Only Dress the Wounds: Notes of a Country Doctor

Biographies & Memoirs

Merrill, Ted

Theodore Merrill, Marion

Professionals & Academics

Homeostasis Pr

This is an engaging and unique memoir, told with a wry wit by two brothers now in their eighties. Living in a small Idaho town, their schoolteacher father had summers free, and these stories tell of the authors' growing up years camping and fishing on Idaho's Wood River and Salmon River for two to three months each summer. The book paints a picture of a close and funtional family, and touches on parenting, history, and society. It appears on the surface as isolated vignettes of treasured places and events, but on a deeper level it shows an orderly progression of lessons learned and skills gained, of cultures and values being passed on--and the passing of an era on our planet.

River Runts

Merrill, Bill

Memoirs

Ted Merrill, a lifelong physician and ecologist, offers the Eco-jar as a working model of Planet Earth. An Eco-jar is a sealed, air-tight container, mostly full of water but also containing mud, sand, rocks, plants, and tiny creatures. You can easily make one by following Ted's simple instructions, and once you begin to think of our Earth as a huge Eco-jar, you'll understand how the lessons Ted shares apply to every aspect of human endeavor.

Lessons from Pond Scum

Science & Math

Biological Sciences

Homeostasis Press

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