Stories Of A Country Doctor

Author : Therese Zink
Publisher : Literature and Medicine
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Medical
ISBN : NWU:35556041040684

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The Country Doctor Revisited by Therese Zink Pdf

An anthology that addresses the changing nature of rural medicine in the United States "These authors courageously document the emotional and literally physical vulnerabilities they experience while delivering care in rural communities. ... This book exquisitely illustrates the complexity of 'dual relationships' and boundary issues in rural practice."--Family Medicine Over the past thirty years, rural health care in the United States has changed dramatically. The stereotypical white-haired doctor with his black bag of instruments and his predominantly white, small-town clientele has imploded: the global age has reached rural America. Independently owned clinics have given way to a massive system of hospitals; new technology now brings specialists right to the patient's bedside; and an increasingly diverse clientele has sparked the need for doctors and nurses with an equally diverse assortment of skills. The Country Doctor Revisited is a fascinating collection of essays, poems, and short stories written by rural health care professionals on the experiences of doctors and nurses practicing medicine in rural environments, such as farms, reservations, and migrant camps. The pieces explore the benefits and burdens of new technology, the dilemmas in making ethically sound decisions, and the trials of caring for patients in a broken system. Alternately compelling, thought provoking, and moving, they speak of the diversity of rural health care providers, the range of patients served in rural communities, the variety of settings that comprise the rural United States, and the resources and challenges health care providers and patients face today.

Author : Franz Kafka
Publisher : Phoemixx Classics Ebooks
Page : 11 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-27
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9783985941841

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The Country Doctor by Franz Kafka Pdf

The Country Doctor Franz Kafka - The plot follows a country doctor's hapless struggle to attend a sick young boy on a cold winter's night. A series of surreal events occur in the process, including the appearance of a mysterious groom in a pig shed.

Author : John Berger
Publisher : Canongate Books
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2015-02-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781782115021

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A Fortunate Man by John Berger Pdf

In 1966 John Berger spent three months in the Forest of Dean shadowing an English country GP, John Sassall. Sassall is a fortunate man - his work occupies and fulfils him, he lives amongst the patients he treats, the line between his life and his work is happily blurred. In A Fortunate Man, Berger's text and the photography of Jean Mohr reveal with extraordinary intensity the life of a remarkable man. It is a portrait of one selfless individual and the rural community for which he became the hub. Drawing on psychology, biography and medicine A Fortunate Man is a portrait of sacrifice. It is also a profound exploration of what it means to be a doctor, to serve a community and to heal. With a new introduction by writer and GP, Gavin Francis.

Author : Roger A. MacDonald
Publisher : Minnesota Historical Society Press
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2008-10-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780873516631

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A Country Doctor's Casebook by Roger A. MacDonald Pdf

A humane and humorous collection of stories chronicling the work of a country doctor practicing in the remote north woods.

Author : Hull Cook
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2013-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780803264816

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Fifty Years a Country Doctor by Hull Cook Pdf

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.

Author : David Loxterkamp
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0874518857

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A Measure of My Days by David Loxterkamp Pdf

A family physician describes the universal struggle with adversity and discovers strength through work, faith, community, and love.

Author : Sarah Orne Jewett
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : Country life
ISBN : UOM:39015047123891

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A Country Doctor by Sarah Orne Jewett Pdf

"This is Miss Jewett's first novel, her former efforts having been confined to short stories. To a plot of unusual interest she brings, as a physician's daughter, a close familiarity with the incidents of a doctor's life; and this, combined with wonderful acuteness of observation and a graceful styled, make a book of very unusual interest. " --publisher's summary.

Author : Michael Sparrow
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Family medicine
ISBN : OCLC:1175277491

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Country Doctor by Michael Sparrow Pdf

Author : Jimmie L. Ashcraft
Publisher : Dog Ear Publishing
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Medicine, Rural
ISBN : 9781608441990

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Reflections of a Country Doctor by Jimmie L. Ashcraft Pdf

This book contains my reflections upon my 26 years as an "old time" generalist family physician in rural America. It is merely a collection of stories that depict some of my many experiences over the years. The stories mirror those of many of my generalist colleagues who have experienced "the trenches" of rural primary care. My stories span the breadth and depth of the discipline of rural family medicine. Stories range from assisting mothers giving birth to caring for and comforting those at the end of life, from performing surgery to becoming involved in one's community, and from making house calls to providing emergency room care. Some are silly, some are sad, some are funny, and some may make you mad. JIMMIE ASHCRAFT, M.D. Doctor Ashcraft is a graduate of the University of Oregon Medical School. He was a member of the clinical staff of the University of Washington Medical School for 30 years. Doctor Ashcraft and his wife, Kay, live in Montana. They have three grown children and six grandchildren.

Author : Willis Percival King
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Medicine
ISBN : UOM:39015057718648

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Stories of a Country Doctor by Willis Percival King Pdf

Author : Barry Ladd
Publisher : Glenbridge Publishing Ltd.
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Physicians (General practice)
ISBN : 0944435378

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Reflections of a Country Doctor by Barry Ladd Pdf

Meet Barry Ladd. He is a family physician who practiced medicine for thirty years in a small country town, forty miles south of a major city. He calls it "Our Town", because the residents, including himself, so personally identified with the community. In the thirty years that Ladd practiced in "Our Town", he delivered fifteen hundred babies and had one hundred and eighty thousand office visits. He delivered the babies of the babies, and took care of four generations in the same family. During that time, there was an explosion of technology and scientific information. The practice of medicine shifted from being more of an art to being more of a science. During this time, Ladd was a participant and observer. He saw how personal events and decisions played out over time. He tells his readers what he saw, heard, and felt. These are all true stories. Some are composites of several people. The names have been changed.

Author : Mikhail Bulgakov
Publisher : Melville House
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2013-02-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781612191911

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A Country Doctor's Notebook by Mikhail Bulgakov Pdf

Part autobiography, part fiction, this early work by the author of The Master and Margarita shows a master at the dawn of his craft, and a nation divided by centuries of unequal progress. In 1916 a 25-year-old, newly qualified doctor named Mikhail Bulgakov was posted to the remote Russian countryside. He brought to his position a diploma and a complete lack of field experience. And the challenges he faced didn’t end there: he was assigned to cover a vast and sprawling territory that was as yet unvisited by modern conveniences such as the motor car, the telephone, and electric lights. The stories in A Country Doctor’s Notebook are based on this two-year window in the life of the great modernist. Bulgakov candidly speaks of his own feelings of inadequacy, and warmly and wittily conjures episodes such as peasants applying medicine to their outer clothing rather than their skin, and finding himself charged with delivering a baby—having only read about the procedure in text books. Not yet marked by the dark fantasy of his later writing, this early work features a realistic and wonderfully engaging narrative voice—the voice, indeed, of twentieth century Russia’s greatest writer.

Author : Robert W. Denton
Publisher : Selah Publishing Group
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2009-08-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1589302397

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Stories of a Country Doctor by Robert W. Denton Pdf

Robert Denton grew up in small mining towns of the Mojave desert, himself the son of a small town doctor. Following his father's footsteps, he attended medical school at Northwestern in Chicago, where he met and married Betty Spaeth. He and Betty then moved to Bishop, California, a small town in a wild setting between the fourteen thousand foot mountains of the Sierra and White mountain ranges, where Bob established himself as a country doctor for fifty-seven years. Dr. Denton is an accomplished story teller, and in this anecdotal autobiography he recounts fascinating tales stretching from his father's experiences growing up on a farm at the turn of the twentieth century to his own many adventures as a country doctor in the Eastern Sierra. Apart from their entertainment value, many of these stories are of considerable historical interest as well. From gun fights, plane crashes and backcountry rescues to tales of political intrigue, missionary work in exotic locales and accounts of the author's unique experiences as a traditional, do everything country doctor, this book captivates from start to finish.

Author : Abraham Verghese
Publisher : BookRags
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : AIDS (Disease)
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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My Own Country by Abraham Verghese Pdf

Author : Michael Sparrow
Publisher : Prelude Books
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2020-02-20
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781788422239

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Country Doctor: Hilarious True Stories from a Rural Practice by Michael Sparrow Pdf

Have you ever had to decide what to do with an unidentified corpse by a Devonian cowshed when the herd is due in for milking? And how would you react if one of your patients was abducted by aliens? If you are a GP it seems these are routine matters. From coping with the suicide of a colleague to the unusual whereabouts of a jar of Coleman's mustard, this is the story of one rural doctor's often misguided attempts to make sense of the career in which he has unwittingly found himself. Dr Sparrow's adventures would be utterly unbelievable were they not 100% true stories. His bedside manner may sometimes leave a little to be desired but, if you're in dire straits, this doctor will have you in stitches.