Island Practice: Cobblestone Rash, Underground Tom, and Other Adventures of a Nantucket Doctor Audiobook

Quotes

• “If you want to understand the ‘real’ Nantucket, you must read Island Practice. Dr. Tim Lepore personifies the island’s fierce, quirky, and independent spirit. This is a book about an extraordinary man—a doctor, yes, but also a community hero. His story is as engrossing as the best fiction…but it’s all true.”

  — Elin Hilderbrand, New York Times bestselling author of The Island

• “Pam Belluck has dissected the antics and heroism of a Nantucket doctor who doubles as the resident wizard. This physician not only makes house calls (even to tree houses) but also invites patients to drop in at his house for treatment. If you suffer from Nantucket Fever—or any other ill while on that island—Dr. Tim Lepore is your man.”

  — Dava Sobel, New York Times bestselling author

• “Outstanding imagery and character description. Readable, interesting, and almost cautionary in its description of what we have lost in today’s world of medicine…Thank goodness for writers like Pam Belluck who, in Island Practice, presents Dr. Tim Lepore, a cross between Marcus Welby and Hawkeye Pierce of M*A*S*H fame.”

  — New York Journal of Books

• “Belluck’s prose is beautiful and lyrical…The Lepore she gives us is a fascinating character.”

  — Boston Globe

• “A careful, eminently readable character study of a fascinating, difficult man whose curiosity and compassion are far too rare in the practice of modern medicine.”

  — Chicago Tribune

• “A fun profile of Nantucket’s gun-toting, marijuana-prescribing, house-call-making local doc.”

  — People

• “Through the improbable story of an eccentric and intensely creative Nantucket doctor—the man has operated with flints!—Pam Belluck has crafted an elegant and wildly entertaining depiction of the struggle to maintain humanity and empathy in the face of health care’s ongoing industrialization. A natural storyteller with a reporter’s eye for detail and a stand-up comic’s dry wit, Belluck leaves the reader with an urge to feign illness just to have an excuse to visit her subject. A truly wonderful read.”

  — Warren St. John, bestselling author of Rammer Jammer Yellow Hammer

• “A vibrant, throbbing, and sometimes painful book about life on an is­land and all the messiness that goes along with helping people through hard times if you’re the local doctor…Island Practice is chock-full of col­orful anecdotes of island life, humor, empathy, colorful and sometimes X-rated medical emer­gencies, and the mundane that make up the life of a country, or is­land, doctor.”

  — Nantucket Inquirer and Mirror

• “If you were as entranced as I was with John Berendt’s Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil and Susan Orlean’s The Orchid Thief, you’ll find similar pleasures in Island Practice.”

  — Huntington News

• “Funny, startling, and sobering by turns.”

  — Commercial Dispatch

• “Page-turning prose…Inspiring and entertaining, Lepore’s story and his beloved island come to life in Belluck’s hands.”

  — Publishers Weekly

• “This is a riveting portrait of a dynamic, headstrong physician. Medical nonfiction fans will find much to enjoy. Lepore may remind readers of Dr. Paul Farmer from Tracy Kidder’s Mountains beyond Mountains.”

  — Library Journal

• “[An] absorbing debut…An intriguing biography of a unique—and on Nantucket, irreplaceable—doctor.”

  — Kirkus Reviews