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Bones & Me Kindle Edition

4.6 out of 5 stars 18 ratings

I have had the distinct pleasure of treating over 100,000 patients and dealt with many of their secret thoughts and private lives as well as their orthopedic conditions, but they only knew me as the man in the white coat, in scrubs or behind a mask.

This is not an autobiography but a journey you will take by my side through medical school, internship and residency training, my Navy experience, and private practice through re-retirement. I will introduce you to the difficult years of medical school and the grueling schedules of my training.There will be many humorous stories, some disconcerting events, and some sad and humbling experiences that affected my life and the way I chose to care for my patients. Throughout, I also relate my thoughts about the changes in orthopedics as well as medicine over the decades.

Please join me on this fast-paced sixty year adventure.

I'm sure you won't find anything comparable.



Thomas Neviaser, MD is a retired orthopedic surgeon, who, upon retirement, opted to trade in his scalpel for a word processor. As an author of "THE WAY I SEE IT: A Head-to-Toe Guide of Common Orthopedic Conditions" and two novels, "YOU DEAR SWEET MAN" and "THE MYSTERY OF FLIGHT 2222," he is the president of Creative Construction & Consultants, Inc in Culpeper, VA and and enjoys upland and waterfowl hunting with his black lab, Rixey.
Please visit his web site, www.thomasneviaser.com
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0B8TJQJ6V
  • Accessibility ‏ : ‎ Learn more
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ August 4, 2022
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 2.9 MB
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 166 pages
  • Page Flip ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.6 out of 5 stars 18 ratings

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Thomas Neviaser
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Thomas Neviaser, MD is a retired orthopedic surgeon who has traded in his knife for a word processor. He has spoken and written about bone and joint conditions, extensively in his 36 years of being in the field of orthopedic surgery. Since retired, he has written an orthopedic guide for the layperson to educate them through an easy-to-read and understand guide, THE WAY I SEE IT: A Head-to-Toe Guide to Orthopaedic Conditions.

His 6th and most recent work, BONES & ME, has just been published. This is not an autobiography but a journey you will take by his side through medical school, internship and residency training, Navy experience, and private practice through re-retirement. You will become privy to the difficult years of medical school and the grueling schedules of his training. There will be many humorous stories, some disconcerting events, and some sad and humbling experiences that affected his life and the way he chose to care for his patients. Throughout, he also relates his thoughts about the changes in orthopedics as well as some unfortunate developments in medicine over the decades.

Please join him on this fast-paced sixty-year adventure. You won't find anything comparable.

His first novel published is a paranormal/fantasy novel about the advertising world and its effects on people, YOU DEAR SWEET MAN.

His newest novel, THE MYSTERY OF FLIGHT 2222 is enjoying 4-5 star reviews. Two strangers are seated together on an airplane and play a game to pass the time. The game consists of picking out 7 passengers, guessing their names, age, marital status, kids, profession, past, and personalities. Once asleep, they are awakened and informed of an impending crash into the sea. They survive with only 7 other people, those whose names are the same as they had guessed! Their ensuing adventure in a raft deals with death, sharks, weather, pirates on the high seas, and other harrowing conditions, and their effectual rescue terminates in an unexpected twist of everyone's fate.

Visit his Website thomasneviaser.com

Immediately after retiring, he wrote THE COMB IN THE URINAL and Other Perplexities of Life, 16 short stories about everyday objects found in unusual places, and MAN'S UNOFFICIAL GUIDE TO THE USE OF HIS GARAGE, a humorous yet instructive guide and gift for men trying to organize their garages.

He is a former columnist for the Culpeper Star-Exponent and the Culpeper Times newspapers, "The Way I See It" and "Them Bones and Joints".

He is also available for lectures on low back pain as well as knee and shoulder affectations. Please contact him on his website for more information on his speeches.

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  • Reviewed in the United States on August 6, 2022
    I received an advanced reading copy of this book for free and have not received any compensation for my review. I thoroughly enjoyed the book. It was fascinating to learn what motivates and drives a person to spend so much of their youth and life studying and training to gain knowledge about each inch of the body and how to care for another physically, mentally, and spiritually. The forming of an MD and a true healer takes such focus! It is amazing that he managed, despite all, to maintain connection with his wife and three children especially throughout those early years of such tremendous demands on his time. I particularly enjoyed how he revealed his personality … the good, the ridiculous, his deficits, and his humor. Some may find his dark humor expressed in the book to be sacrilegious or disrespectful. In one perspective it was. But humor is a way medical staff deal with the sadness and seriousness of life and death and so many challenges in between. He does express some dark humor but the build up to the event conditioned me to enjoy immensely his perspective on the situation. The situations he got himself into with various problems were hysterical. He presented himself as not always making the most mature decisions in his youth and letting frustration with a situation get the best of him. On the other side of that coin, he revealed his enormous empathy and respect for others and his emotional intensity. I feel I got to know the man … as a real person, as an authentic person. The orthopedic detail was a bit much but through it one could see his passion extraordinaire for his chosen specialty.
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  • Reviewed in the United States on August 7, 2022
    If you are one of the 100,000 patients Dr Tom has seen, or a friend, or even a relative you need to read “Bones and Me,” If you want to know how he arrived at the point where you met him, or heard of him..... this well written story will let you. About 30 years ago I became a patient. When he saw me in his office he asked me why I was there. My rather flippant answer was because you have “SHOULDER” on your car's license plate. I must at this point disclaim that Tom's dad and my stepdad are brothers. We did not know each other growing up because he grew up in the DC area, as a Redskin fan, and I was in Baltimore, as a Colt fan. Different locations, different cultures. Because of the family connection, though, I sought Tom's advice regarding my ailing shoulder. After reading this book I realized that because of his training and medical history my coming to him was the right choice, regardless of any family connection. Knowing how he arrived at who he is now brought me along for the ride, while also making me look back at my own life, and appreciate how I became me in 2022, from where I started 80 years ago.
  • Reviewed in the United States on October 6, 2023
    good book
  • Reviewed in the United States on August 6, 2022
    Really enjoyed this book. You never really know the background stories of the doctors you see. This man’s journey to becoming a doctor shows the struggles, long hours, and hard work that goes into becoming one of the best. But it is not a dry rendition of his life. It is filled with hysterical stories and learning experiences. It shows the careful balance between work life and family life. It also shows the joy of doing something you love while caring for people in a way that goes beyond medicine and science. You can see how this doctor loved the science of his work and using his hand and his problem-solving skills but more importantly you can see how his desire to help and heal others was the most rewarding thing of his lifelong profession. Something that is truly missing in today’s treatment of illness…the ability to listen and have love for the patient. What a great example for future doctors!! Highly recommend this book.
  • Reviewed in the United States on October 16, 2022
    An ebullient memoir of an orthopedic surgeon as well as a firsthand look into the healthcare system of the past.

    'Bones & Me' by Thomas Neviaser shows a life full of broken bones, hard work, and constant learning.

    'I really enjoyed the extremities and spinal column.' This phrase never better illustrates the character of the author and his book. Deeply in love with his profession, the author wanted to share his passion with others by describing his long, forty-year journey as an orthopedic surgeon. The book contains revealing cases, some of which can make the reader chuckle, and mistakes that will make the reader frown (nowadays, the author would have been sued for malpractice). In a few instances, the author excuses his own actions; still talking about them many years later (including them in a book) indicates the author's courage and self-awareness.

    Another book by Thomas Neviaser, 'The Way I See It: A Head-to-Toe Guide to Common Orthopedic Conditions,' talks exclusively about, well, orthopedy. Thus, the memoir only mentions yet not describes in depth various common traumas. First and foremost, the book introduces readers to the author, as if we all met over a cup of coffee in a cafe; the medical cases he dealt with serve as a blurred background.

    'Bones & Me' will be a perfect gift for the author's family and colleagues. It can also start a series of 'Know Your Doctor' memoirs that can replace magazines in the doctors' waiting rooms. In the end, wouldn't patients trust their physician more if they knew his story?

    I received an advance review copy from BookSirens, and I am leaving this review voluntarily.

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