Fifty Years a Country Doctor - Couverture souple

Cook, Hull

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0803263899 ISBN 13 : 9780803263895

Editeur : Bison Books, 1998

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Hull Cook (1911-2001) lived in Sidney, Nebraska, for several years before moving to Bellingham, Washington.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Bison Books
• Date d'édition: 1998
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0803263899
• ISBN 13: 9780803263895
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 203
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• Personne responsable: non disponible