The Best Gift: Tales of a Small-Town Doctor Learning Life's Greatest Lessons

by Walt Larimore, Debbie Macomber (Foreword by)

Overview

When Walt Larimore, MD, moved his young family to Kissimmee, Florida, to start a small-town medical practice in 1985, he had no idea he was embarking on an enterprise that would change his life in ways both large and small. Dr. Larimore shared some of these heartwarming and heartbreaking tales in The Best Medicine. Now he offers up more charming stories of his time as a family physician in a rural, small-yet-growing town in The Best Gift.

Ideal for anyone wrestling with the inevitable and difficult storms of life, as well as fans of Dr. Larimore's popular Bryson City series, The Best Gift is a tender and insightful collection of stories chronicling one young doctor's spiritual growth as a physician, husband, father, and community member. Filled with characters colorful and crusty, warmhearted and hotheaded, witty and winsome, these captivating stories glow with drama, heartbreak, warmth, love, and humor. You'll laugh. You'll cry. You'll learn some of life's greatest lessons. And you'll wish Dr. Larimore was your doctor.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780800738235
Publisher:	Baker Publishing Group
Publication date:	11/16/2021
Pages:	272
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Walt Larimore, MD, has been a family physician for nearly 40 years. The bestselling author of the Bryson City books and The Best Medicine, he has been called "one of America's best-known family physicians" and was the recipient of a lifetime achievement award from Marquis Who's Who in 2019. He writes a bimonthly health column, "Ask Dr. Walt," for Today's Christian Living magazine and formerly hosted the Ask the Family Doctor show on Fox's Health Network. He has been a guest on a wide variety of television and radio shows, including The Today Show, CBS's Morning Show, CNN's Anderson Cooper 360, and several Fox News programs. Dr. Larimore currently lives in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

Table of Contents

Foreword Debbie Macomber 15

Introduction 17

Part 1 Storms to Come

1 The Wreck 21

2 The Prayer 26

3 It's Hot Here 31

4 First Prayer Ever 36

5 Expect the Unexpected 41

6 Discipler 47

7 Imminent Calamity 51

8 Baptism under Fire 57

9 Rodeo Time 64

10 Don't Lose the Lesson 71

11 Quality Time 76

12 House Fire 80

13 A New Trick 88

14 Table Fellowship 92

15 Faith and Medicine 97

Part 2 God's in Every Storm

16 Life-Giving Hope 105

17 Born Again and Again 110

18 The Missing Link 115

19 God Said "No" 121

20 Where Y'at? 130

21 Margie 136

22 Leon 140

23 Patients and Friends 143

24 Amazing Bull 148

25 Memorable Auctions 154

26 Seizure 162

27 Death of a Dream 168

28 Code Blue, ICU 173

Part 3 Perfect Gifts After Storms

29 The Prank 181

30 The Unkindest Cut 185

31 By-and-By 191

32 Lady in Red 201

33 Misery to Ministry 206

34 Tempest and Terror 209

35 Night of Tornadoes 212

36 Haunting Silence 217

37 Almost Squashed 220

38 A True Miracle 225

39 Not Our Final Home 231

40 Fear Not 239

41 The Best Gift 242

Epilogue 247

Acknowledgments 253

Other Resources from Walt Larimore, MD 257

Notes 259