50 Years a Country Doctor (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780803263895)

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.

Author: Hull Cook
ISBN-10: 0803263899
ISBN-13: 9780803263895
Publisher: Bison Books
Language: English
Published: 09/01/1998
Pages: 203
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.51lbs
Size: 8.04h x 5.29w x 0.49d
Award: Society of Midland Authors Award - Winner

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 07/01/1998 pg. 943