A Measure of My Days: The Journal of a Country Doctor - Hardcover

9780874517996: A Measure of My Days: The Journal of a Country Doctor
View all copies of this ISBN edition:
 
 
This is the story of one year in the life of a family physician in Belfast, Maine, and his connections not just to that community but to the Human family. In thoughtful, elegiac, often lyrical prose, David Loxterkamp muses about his patients, his colleagues, his family, and his relationship to his Maker as he recalls the daily minutiae that constitute "the bookmarks in a bountiful life, a string of facts and circumstances that have moved beyond the mere documentary" to his discovery of "peace and perspective and companionship along my muddled way."

That way, which is faithfully mapped by journal entries, is populated by the characters he has come to know: the lobstermen, millworkers, church-goers, back-to-the-landers, and "those from away" who share this picturesque, bare-bones, blue-collar piece of Maine coast. We meet Elena, whose fatal Lou Gehrig's disease reduces her speech to air made into letters on a computer screen. Bernitha languishes in a slow death from lung cancer. A laboring mother deals with her pain, uncertainty, and the realized possibility of a deformed infant. Through the dull and the dramatic, the mundane and the magnificent, Loxterkamp finds his way and fashions "an anthem to the Good God" with deeply moving, "everyday stories of an irrepressible human spirit, a spirit refined by adversity and renewed by love."

"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.

Review:
David Loxterkamp is a family practitioner in Belfast, Maine, and The Measure of My Days is an account of one year in his life and those he serves. It soon becomes clear in Loxterkamp's chronicle that one need not look to big city emergency rooms for medical drama: among his patients, the doctor includes one woman suffering from the debilitating and ultimately fatal Lou Gehrig's disease and another dying slowly from lung cancer. The dramatic, the tragic, and the transcendent moments of medicine are interspersed in Loxterkamp's journal with more mundane matters--breakfast with his family, Easter Sunday services at church, shopping at the supermarket--that complete the picture of a small-town doctor's life.

In the pages of Loxterkamp's journal, the reader meets mill workers and lobster fishermen, churchgoers and backsliders, young and old, the just-born and the soon-to-die. The author's relationships with his friends, neighbors, and patients, as well as the greater issues that arise from those relationships, form the backbone of this thoughtful, year-in-the-life memoir.

From the Publisher:
6 1/8 x 9 1/4 trim. LC 96-54704

"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.

  • PublisherUniv Pr of New England
  • Publication date1997
  • ISBN 10 0874517990
  • ISBN 13 9780874517996
  • BindingHardcover
  • Number of pages321
  • Rating

Other Popular Editions of the Same Title

9780874518856: A Measure of My Days: The Journal of a Country Doctor

Featured Edition

ISBN 10:  ISBN 13:  9780874518856
Publisher: Univ Pr of New England, 1997
Softcover

Top Search Results from the AbeBooks Marketplace

Stock Image

Loxterkamp, David, M.D.
Published by Univ Pr of New England (1997)
ISBN 10: 0874517990 ISBN 13: 9780874517996
New Hardcover Quantity: 1
Seller:
Books Unplugged
(Amherst, NY, U.S.A.)

Book Description Condition: New. Buy with confidence! Book is in new, never-used condition. Seller Inventory # bk0874517990xvz189zvxnew

More information about this seller | Contact seller

Buy New
US$ 27.09
Convert currency

Add to Basket

Shipping: FREE
Within U.S.A.
Destination, rates & speeds
Stock Image

Loxterkamp, David, M.D.
Published by Univ Pr of New England (1997)
ISBN 10: 0874517990 ISBN 13: 9780874517996
New Hardcover Quantity: 1
Seller:
GoldenWavesOfBooks
(Fayetteville, TX, U.S.A.)

Book Description Hardcover. Condition: new. New. Fast Shipping and good customer service. Seller Inventory # Holz_New_0874517990

More information about this seller | Contact seller

Buy New
US$ 23.12
Convert currency

Add to Basket

Shipping: US$ 4.00
Within U.S.A.
Destination, rates & speeds
Stock Image

Loxterkamp, David, M.D.
Published by Univ Pr of New England (1997)
ISBN 10: 0874517990 ISBN 13: 9780874517996
New Hardcover Quantity: 1
Seller:
Book Deals
(Tucson, AZ, U.S.A.)

Book Description Condition: New. New! This book is in the same immaculate condition as when it was published. Seller Inventory # 353-0874517990-new

More information about this seller | Contact seller

Buy New
US$ 30.83
Convert currency

Add to Basket

Shipping: FREE
Within U.S.A.
Destination, rates & speeds
Stock Image

Loxterkamp, David, M.D.
Published by Univ Pr of New England (1997)
ISBN 10: 0874517990 ISBN 13: 9780874517996
New Hardcover Quantity: 1
Seller:
GoldBooks
(Austin, TX, U.S.A.)

Book Description Hardcover. Condition: new. New Copy. Customer Service Guaranteed. Seller Inventory # think0874517990

More information about this seller | Contact seller

Buy New
US$ 26.61
Convert currency

Add to Basket

Shipping: US$ 4.25
Within U.S.A.
Destination, rates & speeds
Stock Image

Loxterkamp, David, M.D.
Published by Brand: UPNE (1997)
ISBN 10: 0874517990 ISBN 13: 9780874517996
New Hardcover Quantity: 1
Seller:
Front Cover Books
(Denver, CO, U.S.A.)

Book Description Condition: new. Seller Inventory # FrontCover0874517990

More information about this seller | Contact seller

Buy New
US$ 29.86
Convert currency

Add to Basket

Shipping: US$ 4.30
Within U.S.A.
Destination, rates & speeds
Stock Image

Loxterkamp, David, M.D.
Published by Univ Pr of New England (1997)
ISBN 10: 0874517990 ISBN 13: 9780874517996
New Hardcover Quantity: 1
Seller:
BennettBooksLtd
(LOS ANGELES, CA, U.S.A.)

Book Description Condition: New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! 1.46. Seller Inventory # Q-0874517990

More information about this seller | Contact seller

Buy New
US$ 58.00
Convert currency

Add to Basket

Shipping: US$ 5.21
Within U.S.A.
Destination, rates & speeds
Stock Image

Loxterkamp, David, M.D.
Published by Univ Pr of New England (1997)
ISBN 10: 0874517990 ISBN 13: 9780874517996
New Hardcover Quantity: 1
Seller:
Wizard Books
(Long Beach, CA, U.S.A.)

Book Description Hardcover. Condition: new. New. Seller Inventory # Wizard0874517990

More information about this seller | Contact seller

Buy New
US$ 67.86
Convert currency

Add to Basket

Shipping: US$ 3.50
Within U.S.A.
Destination, rates & speeds