{"product_id":"9780345356598","title":"Manhattan Country Doctor","description":"\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctbody\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor\/Contributor(s):\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003eSlocum, Milton J.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eBallantine Books\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDate:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e8\/12\/1988\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBinding:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003ePaperback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003eNEW\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/tbody\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003cb\u003e“A wonderful picture of a doctor’s life in (an almost vanished) New York.”—Oliver Sacks\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the middle of the Depression, when the West Side of Manhattan was a small town of its own, the young Milton Slocum, MD, and his wife, Belle, set up general practice in New York City’s notorious Hell’s Kitchen.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Available around the clock for every medical emergency, Dr. Slocum tended to a vivid cast of real-life characters—mobsters, theater people, Old World families, boxers, and others—who became his good friends as well as his patients. Dr. Slocum’s tales of his thiry-year Manhattan practice—many heartwarming or hilarious, others poignant reminders of the difficulties of the Depression and the dearth of medical advances—recall life “way back when,” when corner drugstores sold leeches, the local candy store doubled as a telephone message center, the shoeshine stand was a bookie joint, and where the neighborhood women cushioned their elbows with brightly colored pillows as they leaned out of the windows to chat with passersby. \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eManhattan Country Doctor\u003c\/i\u003e is a moving, nostalgic account of medicine as science and art, of a colorful neighborhood in turbulent times, and of a man who exemplified the traditional image of the country doctor amid the teeming brownstones of New York City. \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e“Slocum won me over. The doctor has a deadpan humanism that allows the story to tell itself. . . . Tough, clear-eyed, idiosyncratic and fiercely \u003cb\u003ehonest, an original who animadverts on miserly\u003c\/b\u003e patients, egocentric doctors, psychoanalysis and lucky Luciano with evenhanded fervor.”—\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Books Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Ballantine Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43352036573439,"sku":"9780345356598","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0452\/0886\/2873\/files\/9780345356598_s600x595.jpg?v=1775593305","url":"https:\/\/massivebookshop.com\/products\/9780345356598","provider":"MASSIVE BOOKSHOP","version":"1.0","type":"link"}