Fifty Years a Country Doctor

Fifty Years a Country Doctor
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Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Total Pages : 240
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ISBN-10 : 9780803264816
ISBN-13 : 080326481X
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Book Synopsis Fifty Years a Country Doctor by : Hull Cook

Download or read book Fifty Years a Country Doctor written by Hull Cook and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 p.


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