The book is a memoir of family medicine as practiced in the 1970s in rural America. Although based on actual events, the locations and patients are fictionalize
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A humorous, anecdotal history of the author's medical practice from 1936 to 1988, it describes a simpler time, during which doctors practiced without many of th
Excerpt from Reminiscences of a Country Doctor, 1840-1914 IT was scarcely to be expected that one who had been so favourably received in his former literary eff