ISLAND PRACTICE at the Commonwealth Club! March 19, 2013

A lively conversation about ISLAND PRACTICE with author and New York Times staff writer Pam Belluck. ISLAND PRACTICE is also being developed for a television series by Imagine Television and 20th Century Fox.

ISLAND PRACTICE is the spirited true story of a colorful, contrarian doctor on the world-famous yet idiosyncratic island of Nantucket. Dr. Timothy Lepore is surgeon, coroner, football team doctor, tick expert, unofficial psychologist, accidental homicide detective and occasional veterinarian. He has treated Jimmy Buffett, Chris Matthews, and Kennedy relatives, but makes house calls to a hermit in the forest and lets people pay in oatmeal raisin cookies. He carves scalpels from obsidian and tackles everything from "toe-tourniquet syndrome" to horses with Lyme disease. He espouses conservative views while performing abortions and giving patients marijuana cookies. Come learn about what his story has to teach us about today's health-care landscape, about the medical care we want, and about preserving individuality in a cookie-cutter world.

You can find out more about ISLAND PRACTICE here http://www.islandpracticebook.com/, here http://www.facebook.com/islandpractice and here http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/07/27/there-once-was-a-surgeon-from-nantucket/

Networking reception at 5:30 p.m. Conversation with Pam Belluck, interviewed by Katie Hafner, at 6 p.m. Book signing at 7 p.m.

Official Website: http://www.commonwealthclub.org/node/64482