Primary Care, A Doctor's Life North and South of the Border
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| Rating | : | 4.47 (687 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0865349347 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 252 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-08-10 |
| Language | : | English |
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. She still travels to the clinic in Mexico at least three times a year. Emily Hartzog finished her training as an Obstetrician/Gynecologist at the Cornell Medical Center in New York City, then spent seventeen years in and around the Navajo Reservation before moving to New York City in 2008. Since then, she has been working at the Continuum Center for Health and Healing which integrates Eastern and Western medici
Since then, she has been working at the Continuum Center for Health and Healing which integrates Eastern and Western medicine. . About the Author Emily Hartzog finished her training as an Obstetrician/Gynecologist at the Cornell Medical Center in New York City, then spent seventeen years in and around the Navajo Reservation before moving to New York City in 2008. She still travels to the clinic in Mexico at least three times a year
Diana M Adams MD said honest, well written, insightful, entertaining- only the highest praise for Emily's story. From the first page, the book is obviously well written and the story is entirely original. You can barely put it down until you reach the end. Dr. Hartzog's life work touches on many current issues we can all relate to, from health care to immigration, while telling her unique individual story - which almost none of us could imagine! Emily balances touching vignettes with deep truths of human nature throughout her book, and does so with a sk. ""Primary Care" review" according to cvanwieck. Emily Hartzog's book is funny, inspiring, moving, and imbued with extraordinary bravery. Whether she is racing through the night down treacherous mountain roads to perform a Cesarean on a Navajo mother or wrenching herself away from her beloved farm and painful marriage to begin life again by starting a free clinic in Mexico, her story is never anything less than compelling and exciting. Rarely are memoirs both exceptional in they life they c. Fascinating book alice b rogers I adored this book! Actually read on a trip to Mexico. Emily's descriptions of Mexico and her travels were so interesting, she has had an incredible life. Well written with emotional and funny parts, this is a book that stays with you long after the finish.
This skill served me well for seventeen years, but then my marriage fell apart and so did I. Hartzog's Southern upbringing hadn't prepared her well for herding cattle, delivering sheep, or planting a vineyard in a place of harsh extremes. A small cement clinic in Mexico turned out to be the thing that saved my life.''. The Indian Health Service was an unlikely place for Emily Hartzog to land after specialty medical training in New York City, but caring for the quiet, unfathomable Navajo in Shiprock, New Mexico became the focus of her life. She and her husband moved to the Four Corners region, named because it takes in parts of four states--Colorado, Utah, Arizona, and New Mexico, and, with no farming background, bought a beautiful property on a rough canyon road. She set up an old-fashioned practice in the middle of town, as the only obstetrician available in a fifty mile radius, and learned about life from her patients every day. Dr. In my despair, I concentrated on the thing that had sustained me most over the years--providing medical care to native people in need. She says, ''Although it was a busy life, I was inspired by the Navajo's guiding philosophy to maintain balance