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Walt Larimore, MD

Family Physician, Educator, Author, and Medical Journalist

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Internationally Recognized Family Physician and Educator

Dr. Larimore retired from direct patient care in December 2021 after serving 40 years as a family physician and delivering over 1,500 babies. During his distinguished career, Dr. Larimore was listed in:

• Distinguished Physicians of America,
• The Best Doctors in America,
• Who's Who in America,
• Who's Who in Medicine and Healthcare,
• Who's Who in Sc
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  The Best Medicine: Tales of Humor and Hope from a Small-Town Doctor

  October 5, 2020

  I fell in love with Dr. Walt Larimore’s new release in a series of small-town medicine anecdotes. In this edition he and his family move from Bryson City, North Carolina to Kissimmee, Florida, where he starts a new family practice.
  
  Dr. Walt, as he is known, introduces us to characters and patients from his real-life small town and medical practice. Endearing descriptions of the small town characters bring them to life. I liken Dr. Walt as a modern day Marcus Welby, MD from old 1970’s television. His practice is molded with compassion, understanding and a perception of the whole-life experience of the individual—the body and the spirit.
  
  The reading is delightful and light, generously peppered with humor, humility, self deprecation at times, and always humble as we witness Dr. Walt’s professional, personal and spiritual growth. He also relates the delight and sorrow in his own personal life. I felt that I could pull up a chair and drink a cup of coffee, leaning into each chapter. There I could sh

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  Author Walt Larimore, MD, will be joined in conversation by Mark Calhoun, PhD.

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  What makes 2nd Lieutenant Phil Larimore’s story special is what happened in World War II’s closing days and the people—and horses—he interacted with in this Forrest Gump-like tale that is emotional, heartbreaking, and inspiring.

  Growing up in the 1930s in Memphis, Tennessee, Phil Larimore is the ultimate Boy Scout—able to read maps, put a compass to good use, and traverse wild swamps and desolate canyons. His other great skill is riding horses.

  Phil does poorly in school, however, leading his parents send to him to a military academy. After Pearl Harbor, Phil realizes he is destined for war. Three weeks before his 18th birthday, he becomes the youngest candidate to ever graduate from Officer Candidate School (OCS) at Fort Benning, Georgia.

  Landing on the Anzio beachhead in February 1944, Phil is put in charge of an Ammunition Pioneer Platoon in the 3rd Infantry Division. Their job: deliver ammunition to the frontline foxholes—a dangerous assignment involving regular forays into No Man’s