50 Years a Country Doctor - Hull Cook

Descriere 50 Years a Country Doctor - Hull Cook

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 50 years of service as a rural doctor in Texas and Nebraska. His humorous account conveys a distinct sense of life in the first half of the 20th century. \nIn 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. Hull Cook is a retired physician in Sidney, Nebraska. This is his first book.

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University Of Nebraska Press

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9780803263895

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