50 Years a Country Doctor
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In a world of HMOs, insurance companies, and an endless flood of forms, Hull Cook reminds us that there was a time when a visit to the doctor's office cost three dollars and doctors still made house calls. Cook recounts fifty years of service as a rural doctor in Texas and Nebraska, where a wide spectrum of dilemmas tested his resourcefulness, endurance, and sense of humor. He describes helping to deliver a baby via telephone during the Blizzard of '49, and he explains his "special delivery" of medication in the dead of winter-an operation involving his Beechcraft Bonanza airplane and a parachute jerry-rigged from dental floss and a red handkerchief. Cook saw it all, from cow-manure poultices to snakebite to kerosene poisoning to drug addiction. His humorous account of life in the first half of the twentieth century conveys a distinct sense of the slings and arrows of doctoring on the plains.
Book information
ISBN: | 9780803263895 |
Publisher: | Bison Original |
Imprint: | Bison Books |
Pub date: | 01 Jan 1998 |
DEWEY: | 610.92 |
DEWEY edition: | 21 |
Language: | English |
Number of pages: | 203 |
Weight: | 227g |
Height: | 203mm |
Width: | 127mm |
Spine width: | 12mm |