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Tales from Kentucky Nurses (Hardcover)
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Tales from Kentucky Nurses (Hardcover)
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From frontier times to the present day, Kentucky nurses have served
with intelligence and energy, always ensuring that their patients
received the best available care. Noted folklorist and oral
historian William Lynwood Montell collects nearly two hundred
stories from these hard-working men and women in Tales from
Kentucky Nurses. From humorous anecdotes to spine-chilling
coincidences, tragic circumstances, and heartwarming encounters,
the tales in this lively volume are recorded exactly as they were
told to Montell. Covering medical practice in the state from the
early twentieth century through contemporary times, the episodes
related in Tales from Kentucky Nurses reveal the significance of
the nursing profession to the Bluegrass state's local life and
culture. They include funny tales -- such as the story of an
injured stripper who swore her pole had been sabotaged and an
anecdote about a surgeon racing between hospitals who paid his
speeding ticket twice, knowing he would have to hurry the other way
in a few hours. Montell also presents moving stories like the
recollections of a nurse who helped a frail cancer patient achieve
his last wish of being baptized. This valuable collection also
features anecdotes from the famous Frontier Nursing Service, which
provided essential care to families in remote areas of the state
and whose leader, Mary Breckinridge, is remembered fondly for her
wit and kindness. In addition, Montell's interviewees share ghost
stories and describe folk remedies like the practice of placing an
axe under a woman's pillow during labor to cut the pain. These
firsthand accounts not only pay homage to an underappreciated
profession but also preserve important aspects of Kentucky's
history not likely to be recorded elsewhere.
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