Heirs of General Practice is a frieze of glimpses of young doctors with patients of every age--about a dozen physicians in all, who belong to the new medical specialty called family practice.
He lives in Princeton, New Jersey..
In 1999, he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Annals of the Former World.
Mc Phee received the Award in Literature from the Academy of Arts and Letters in 1977.
Encounters with the Archdruid (1972) and The Curve of Binding Energy (1974) were nominated for National Book Awards in the category of science.
Also in 1965, he published his first book, A Sense of Where You Are, with Farrar, Straus and Giroux, and in the years since, he has written nearly 30 books, including Oranges (1967), Coming into the Country (1977), The Control of Nature (1989), The Founding Fish (2002), Uncommon Carriers (2007), and Silk Parachute (2011).
His writing career began at Time magazine and led to his long association with The New Yorker, where he has been a staff writer since 1965.
About the Author: John Mc Phee was born in Princeton, New Jersey, and was educated at Princeton University and Cambridge University.
While essential medical background is provided, Mc Phee\'s masterful approach to a trend significant to all of us is replete with affecting, and often amusing, stories about both doctors and their charges.
Their medical objectives, their successes, the professional obstacles they do and do not overcome are representative of any place family practitioners are working.
They are people who have addressed themselves to a need for a unifying generalism in a world that has become greatly subdivided by specialization, physicians who work with the "unquantifiable idea that a doctor who treats your grandmother, your father, your niece, and your daughter will be more adroit in treating you."These young men and women are seen in their examining rooms in various rural communities in Maine, but Maine is only the example.
Heirs of General Practice is a frieze of glimpses of young doctors with patients of every age--about a dozen physicians in all, who belong to the new medical specialty called family practice
