The Big Free, Martha B. Boone
The Big Free, Martha B. Boone
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The Big Free
A Novel

Author: Martha B. Boone

Narrator: Amy Brassette-McKeon

Unabridged: 10 hr 35 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 05/09/2023

Categories: Fiction, Humorous

Synopsis

A young female doctor faces the violence, debauchery, and larger-than-life characters of a New Orleans surgery in this funny and gritty medical novel.

New Orleans, 1982. Voodoo spells, prostitutes, prisoners, and veterans who are adamant about the size of their manhood—it's all just another day at Charity Hospital, also known as The Big Free. It's a medical free-for-all with the toughest trauma surgery in America, and Elizabeth—fresh from medical school in Charleston, wearing pearls and pink plaid socks—is one of the first women to work there.

Half of the doctors who start the surgery program never finish. Nothing in her proper Southern upbringing prepared Elizabeth for the gritty and gruesome world she now experiences on a daily basis. And even if she's tougher than anyone first expected, the question remains . . . will she make the cut?

Full of drama, humor, and New Orleans flavor, The Big Free is a young doctor's coming of age story as only a true medical insider can tell it.

About Martha B. Boone

Martha B. Boone is one of the first one hundred women board certified in urology. After twenty-three years of education, she practiced academic urology for five years and private practice for twenty-four. She was named TOP DOC in urology in Atlanta for over a decade. Her first novel, The Big Free, fictionalizes her first six months at Charity Hospital in New Orleans. Her book, The Unfettered Urologist, is nonfiction and explains the pearls of wisdom she never had time to include in a short office visit. Her third book, Mother Charity, is the sequel to The Big Free. Dr. Boone retired to write full-time and travel with her husband.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Mary Anne on October 17, 2017

This book is captivating and would make an amazing television series or movie! The author is one of the first female urologists in the world, and this is a fictionalized account of her residency at Charity Hospital in New Orleans. The cast of characters is colorful and enchanting, and the insight in......more

Goodreads review by Laura Cummings on July 27, 2017

Great storytelling!! Author tells this story so that you feel as if you are there. It is not merely a good read but an amazing experience! I hope that there will be future opportunities to experience Dr Elizabeth Roberts!!......more

Goodreads review by T.M. on June 15, 2020

Upfront I confess I have met Martha Boone, so I did not have to read the author's bio in the book. She is a world-renown urology surgeon. She also tackled writing a novel with the same precision and passion as she performs in her practice. Like her main character in the story, Martha was one of the......more

Goodreads review by Linda Taub on August 27, 2017

Martha Boone is my doctor, beside being the top urologist in Atlanta, she is a top storyteller. Who knew she could write a beautiful and interesting novel about her life at the "Big Free". I see her in every word and phrase. I can't say enough about her care and intelligence when it comes to taking......more

Goodreads review by Jill Gooch on October 02, 2017

Excellent book! I loved this book. Well written and witty. I couldn't wait to turn the page. Would love to read more from this writer.......more

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