Fifty Years a Country Doctor

Hull Cook

Description

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.

Sujets

• Histoire
• USA
• General practitioner
• History of the Americas
• États-Unis
• History

Informations

• Publié par: Bison Books
• Date de parution: 01 septembre 1998
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780803264724
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 3 Mo

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