A Wall Street Journal Top-10 Best Seller in 2014 & 2015
An Amazon All-Star
Chosen for "15 Books Every Health Professional Should Read" by Physicians Weekly
Medicine Men is the follow-on to Heart in the Right Place. Both books have made national bestseller lists and #1 on Amazon in Biography, Memoir, Science, and Medicine.
Medicine Men is an extraordinary collection of the most memorable moments from old-school rural physicians who each practiced medicine for more than 50 years in the Southern Appalachian Mountains.
It contains hilarious, heroic, and heartwarming true stories of miracle cures, ghost dogs, and much madcap medical mayhem.
Jourdan's work is often compared to James Herriot and Bill Bryson.Her books are on hundreds of lists of best books of the year, funniest books, and best book club books.
Quotations in the book are rendered as they were spoken - in real-life Appalachian dialect.