Well: There Once Was a Surgeon From Nantucket

Thursday, July 26, 2012 - 23:30 in Health & Medicine

Dr. Timothy Lepore, the only surgeon working on Nantucket island, has taken it upon himself to deliver whatever type of medical care his island inhabitants need, often challenging conventional notions of medicine and redefining what it means to be a healer.

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