Tap Dancing, Babies, and Cadavers: Humor and Pathos in the Life of 20th-Century Doctor
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| Rating | : | 4.85 (623 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1439228094 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 84 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-09-22 |
| Language | : | English |
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Unique Rita Buhk I've never read a collection of stories like this one and it enjoyed it very much. It evokes another time period and has both funny and sad moments. Some of the stories are personal or memoir-like. While some stories are vivid, others are anecdotal, like quips or jokes from Reader's Digest. Not a long book. I read it in one sitting.
His humorous, often poignant true-life tales reflect on medical practice in the 1950s and 1960s, when young doctors modeled the fashions of TV physician Ben Casey and nervous fathers-to-be paced back and forth in a designated Fathers Waiting Room. Humiliation takes on new heights in “My Brief Stint as a Tap Dancer,” in which young Krohn’s mother enrolls him in an all-girl tap dancing class. In stories such as “A Grand Impression,” Krohn describes growing up in the Great Depression, when a young boy’s pride in receiving his first pair of Levi’s swiftly turns into a mortifying disaster. In “A Difficult Patient,” Krohn describes how an encounter