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Fifty Years a Country Doctor

by Hull Cook
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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.
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Publisher: Bison Original

Kindle Book

  • Release date: January 1, 2013

OverDrive Read

  • ISBN: 9780803264816
  • Release date: January 1, 2013

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  • ISBN: 9780803264816
  • File size: 595 KB
  • Release date: January 1, 2013

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Kindle Book
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subjects

History Nonfiction

Languages

English

Levels

Lexile® Measure:980
Text Difficulty:5-7

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.
Expand title description text
History Nonfiction
  • Details

    Publisher:
    Bison Original

    Kindle Book
    Release date: January 1, 2013

    OverDrive Read
    ISBN: 9780803264816
    Release date: January 1, 2013

    EPUB ebook
    ISBN: 9780803264816
    File size: 595 KB
    Release date: January 1, 2013

  • Creators
  • Formats
    Kindle Book
    OverDrive Read
    EPUB ebook
  • Languages
    English
  • Levels
    Lexile® Measure: 980
    Text Difficulty: 5-7