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If you want an appendectomy, he can undertake it with a stone scalpel he created himself. If you have a condition nobody can diagnose - "creeping eruption" perhaps - he can identify what it is and address it. A newborn with hair tourniquet symptoms, a human knee that's washed ashore, a equine with Lyme disease, a narcoleptic slipping face-first in the pub, a hermit living underground - hardly anything is off-limits for Dr. Timothy J. Lepore. This is actually the spirited, true account of a multi-colored, contrarian doctor on the world-famous island of Nantucket. Thirty kilometers out to sea, in a strikingly offbeat place known for wealthy summer time people but also home to independent-minded, idiosyncratic year-rounders, Lepore contains the life of the island, often quite practically, in his hands. He's cosmetic surgeon, medical examiner, sports team doctor, tick expert, unofficial psychologist, unintentional homicide detective, and infrequent veterinarian. When problems strikes, he's deeply included. Lepore has treated Jimmy Buffett, Chris Matthews, and various Kennedys, but he makes house calls for anyone and allows people pay him nothing - or anything: oatmeal-raisin cookies, a weather-beaten .44 Magnum, an image of a Nepalese shaman. Lepore can be controversial and contradictory, espousing conservative views while carrying out abortions and providing patients weed cookies. He has abnormal hobbies and interests: he's a gun fanatic, roadkill collector, and concocter of pastimes like knitting dog-hair sweaters. Finally, Island Practice is approximately a doctor absolutely necessary to a community at the same time when treatments is significantly money powered and impersonal. Can he remain a maverick even as a health-care string subsumes his medical center? Every community has - or, some would say, needs - a Doctor Lepore, and his island's drive to hold on to personality in a cookie-cutter world is echoed in the united states. Pam Belluck, a health insurance and medical writer, is a staff article writer and national bureau chief for the New York Times. She's won several prizes, a Knight Fellowship, and a Fulbright Scholarship or grant.
