Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley door pickup 10am - 7pm 3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611

  • Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Tap Dancing, Babies, and Cadavers: Humor and Pathos in the Life of 20th-Century Doctor

Tap Dancing, Babies, and Cadavers: Humor and Pathos in the Life of 20th-Century Doctor

Krohn M. D., Don R.

Paperback

Humor

ISBN10: 1439228094
ISBN13: 9781439228098
Publisher: Booksurge Pub
Published: Apr 13 2009
Pages: 84
Weight: 0.21
Height: 0.17 Width: 5.24 Depth: 7.99
Language: English
In Tap Dancing, Babies, and Cadavers: Humor and Pathos in the Life of a 20th-Century Doctor, retired OB/GYN Don R. Krohn chronicles his journey from boyhood in small-town Nebraska to military high school in Indiana to medical school in Michigan. 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. 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. 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 A Difficult Patient, Krohn describes how an encounter with a particularly exasperating patient made him a better doctor.

Also in

Humor

View All