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A TIME magazine Must-Read Book of the Year Ever wonder what your
therapist is thinking? Now you can find out, as therapist and New
York Times bestselling author Lori Gottlieb takes us behind the
scenes of her practice - where her patients are looking for answers
(and so is she). When a personal crisis causes her world to come
crashing down, Lori Gottlieb - an experienced therapist with a
thriving practice in Los Angeles - is suddenly adrift. Enter
Wendell, himself a veteran therapist with an unconventional style,
whose sessions with Gottlieb will prove transformative for her. As
Gottlieb explores the inner chambers of her own patients' lives - a
self-absorbed Hollywood producer, a young newlywed diagnosed with a
terminal illness, a senior citizen who feels she has nothing to
live for, and a self-destructive twenty-something who can't stop
hooking up with the wrong guys - she finds that the questions they
are struggling with are the very questions she is bringing to
Wendell. Taking place over one year, and beginning with the
devastating event that lands her in Wendell's office, Maybe You
Should Talk to Someone offers a rare and candid insight into a
profession that is conventionally bound with rules and secrecy.
Told with charm and compassion, vulnerability and humour, it's also
the story of an incredible relationship between two therapists, and
a disarmingly funny and illuminating account of our own mysterious
inner lives, as well as our power to transform them.
Of the three physicians at the Battle of the Little Big Horn,
Doctor George Edwin Lord (1846-76) was the lone commissioned
medical officer, an assistant surgeon with the United States Army's
7th Cavalry-one more soldier caught up in the U.S. government's
efforts to fulfill what many people believed was the young
country's "Manifest Destiny." A Life Cut Short at the Little Big
Horn tells Lord's story for the first time. Notable for its unique
angle on Custer's last stand and for its depiction of frontier-era
medicine, the book is above all a compelling portrait of the making
of an army medical professional in mid-nineteenth-century America.
Drawing on newly discovered documents, Todd E. Harburn describes
Lord's education and training at Bowdoin College in Maine and the
Chicago Medical College, detailing what the study of medicine
entailed at the time for "a young man of promise . . . held in
universal esteem." Lord's time as a contract physician with the
army took him in 1874 to the U.S. Northern Boundary Survey. From
there Harburn recounts how, after a failed romance and the rigors
of the U.S. Army Medical Board examination, the young doctor
proceeded to his first-and only-appointment as a post surgeon, at
Fort Buford in Dakota Territory. What followed, of course, was
Lord's service, and his death, in the Little Big Horn campaign,
which this book shows us for the first time from the unique
perspective of the surgeon. A portrait of a singular figure in the
milieu of the American military's nineteenth-century medical elite,
A Life Cut Short at the Little Big Horn offers a close look at a
familiar chapter in U.S. history, and a reminder of the humanity
lost in a battle that resonates to this day.
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