Fifty Years a Country Doctor (Bison Books)
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| Rating | : | 4.71 (866 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0803263899 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 203 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-03-07 |
| Language | : | English |
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Then what?'' What happens is that Cook improvises; he may not always act according to the rules of order, but he'll make no apology if the patient benefits from his ministrations. Cookdedicated, amiable, pressing on without food or sleepthe sick have recourse. There are times when he seems to take pleasure in his patients' rustic, artless behavior (one sad woman explains that her cousin took an overdose of obituaries), yet he appreciates that he often was the court of last resort. For the lucky backwater communities that have a Dr. -- Copyright ©1998, Kirkus Associates, LP. Most readers will only marvel at such a gift. The writing is conversational in tone, laced with old-fashioned humor (he named his medical school cadaver Ernest because he and his partner would be ``working in dead earnest''). Cook delivers one rollicking anecdote after another illustarting what it was like to be a physician in the heartland befo
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. 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.. 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
Hull Cook (1911-2001) lived in Sidney, Nebraska, for several years before moving to Bellingham, Washington.
Donald E. Honey said One of the Best. My reading interests took me into this genre and I read most of what was available. This is one of my favorites because it was just loaded with real-life experiences of this rural doctor. You won't be sorry for ordering this book. It's very good.. Hard to imagine anyone not loving this book. Hull Cook entered medical school with 89 classmates, surviving a curriculum that flunked out 50 of those classmates during the four years. Before he left medical school, he worked relief duty for the interns when they needed a night off. As an intern in San Antonio he was expected to work as a surgeon and medical internist, with but occasional supervision. Naturally, when he returned to Nebraska, he bought the small buildings that served as a hospital and covered most of the specialties h. Randal A Weber said Absolutely Hilarious. I wasn't looking for humor per se when I got this. I thought this might be a little glimpse into years gone by and some shrewd cowboy psychology or something - and to some extent, it is that as well. I found myself laughing a lot at some of the stories, despite Cooks attempt to handle some of the topics with "discretion". Great look at a different time and a different mentality. Can't think of a doctor I wouldn't recommend it to - they might learn something!