{"id":389,"date":"2018-12-31T12:05:29","date_gmt":"2018-12-31T12:05:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/?p=389"},"modified":"2018-12-31T12:05:29","modified_gmt":"2018-12-31T12:05:29","slug":"texas-reads-archiveglenn-dromgoole-35","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/?p=389","title":{"rendered":"Texas Reads>> archiveGlenn Dromgoole"},"content":{"rendered":"
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<\/span><\/span>Texas Reads<\/span>>> archive<\/span><\/a><\/span>Glenn Dromgoole<\/span><\/h1>\n<\/div>\n

12.27.15\u00a0\u00a0 Texas doctor relates bedside stories from his career<\/h1>\n

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<\/a><\/span><\/span>Dr. Tom Hutton was no doubt a top-notch doctor<\/span> during his more than thirty years of practicing in West Texas and Minnesota. He is also a very gifted writer and storyteller, as he demonstrates in his memoir, Carrying the Black Bag: A Neurologist\u2019s Bedside Tales<\/span><\/a><\/span> (Texas Tech University Press, $27.95 hardcover).<\/p>\n

Hutton is a past president of the Texas Neurological Society and taught at the Texas Tech School of Medicine before retiring in 2001 and moving to his ranch near Fredericksburg.<\/p>\n

His stories show compassion, insight, and humor as he deals with real-life patients facing life-and-death challenges.<\/p>\n

Hutton grabs the reader\u2019s attention right off with \u201cOf Middle Linebackers and Medicine,\u201d telling how he got into medicine. As a scrawny sophomore on the Richardson High School football team, Hutton collided with the team\u2019s star middle linebacker and suffered a broken thumb. It ended his fledgling football career but resulted in him deciding to be a doctor.<\/p>\n

The family doctor who set his thumb offered to let Hutton follow him into the exam rooms for several weeks as he treated patients at his clinic. Three examples from those visits \u2014 including a humorous encounter with a breast augmentation patient \u2014 illustrate how a sensitive doctor uses various skills and approaches in treating people. \u201cI experienced the excitement and affirmation that goes with practicing medicine,\u201d Hutton writes. And he passes that excitement along in his stories.<\/p>\n

One piece concerns research he did into Adolph Hitler\u2019s medical problems \u2014 \u201cDid Hitler\u2019s Parkinson\u2019s Disease Affect the Outcome of World War II?\u201d The short answer is yes, but the whole story makes interesting reading.<\/p>\n

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<\/a><\/span><\/span>Waggoner Ranch: <\/span> Weatherford photographer Jeremy Enlow<\/span> says his book, Cowboys of the Waggoner Ranch,<\/span><\/a><\/span> is a \u201c100 percent Texas book \u2014 produced by Texans, about Texans, for Texans.\u201d It was even printed in Texas.<\/p>\n

The elegant, full-color, 140-page oversized book (11 inches by 12) features Enlow\u2019s captivating photos, with informative text by Fort Worth writer Jan Nichols Batts. The book focuses on the day-to-day life of the twenty-six cowboys who continue to work cattle on the Waggoner, even as the massive 510,572 acre ranch is on the market and its future is unresolved.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis book,\u201d the authors note in the introduction, \u201cis a glimpse into the lives of cowboys who ride the trails of their forebears, living a life and practicing skills that have almost disappeared.\u201d The book sells for $58, and the first printing (November) sold out in ten days. A second printing came out earlier this month.<\/p>\n

To get more information, view some of the photographs, or order the book, go to waggonercowboys.com<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n

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Glenn Dromgoole<\/span> is co-author, with Carlton Stowers, of 101 Essential Texas Books<\/span><\/a><\/span> Contact him at g.dromgoole@suddenlink.net.<\/p>\n

>> <\/span>Read his past Texas Reads columns in Lone Star Literary Life here.<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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