The Calling: A Kentucky "Country Doctor" and his registered nurse wife become medical missionaries to Haiti (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781545188484)

Dr. Robert T. Johnson learned much of his medical art and crafts during the Korean War in treating hundreds of those who fell in that bloody conflict. After discharge from the US Air Force he undertook his premed education at Kentucky Wesleyan College, his medical training at the University of Louisville in Kentucky and St. Elizabeth's Hospital in Dayton, Ohio. He then developed a very large and busy family practice in rural Kentucky, while also pursuing a second career as a writer of medical advice columns for popular magazines; such as Woman's World and Outdoor Life. He received recognition as "Kentucky Physician of the Year" in 1983, and was one of the ten top finalists in the nation for Goodhousekeeping's "Doctor of the Year" award. Dr. Bob is an avid "Caribophile" from his sailing adventures throughout the Caribbean, which led he and his RN wife, Betty to the country of Haiti where they were both so moved by the intense poverty and suffering of their people they co-founded MISSIONS OF LOVE, Inc., now a mission of international scope operating a modern clinic and hospital in a remote area there, including several educational, social, and evangelical programs operating currently. Their experiences in the immediate aftermath of the horrendous earthquake which destroyed much of the capitol city of Port-au-Prince in 2010 are graphically detailed in his autobiography, The Calling, published in April of 2017. The Johnsons having had six children by former marriages, have also been avid farmers, ornithologists, bee keepers and breeders of both cattle and horses on their 104 acre farm near Hartford, Kentucky. He includes many journal notes and much of his poetry written during those times in this compelling autobiography.