{"product_id":"manhattan-country-doctor-9780345356598","title":"Manhattan Country Doctor","description":"\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Ballantine Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/12\/1988\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780345356598\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.95lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.52h x 6.58w x 0.73d","brand":"Milton J. Slocum","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51707948466357,"sku":"9780345356598","price":16.15,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_422db45a-56d3-4ddc-86cc-8da015e5907a.jpg?v=1757396805","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/manhattan-country-doctor-9780345356598","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}