About this title: 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 ...
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Date Published: 1998
ISBN-13:9780803263895ISBN:0803263899
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Date Published: 1998
ISBN-13:9780803263895ISBN:0803263899
Description: New. Aims to remind us that there was a time when a visit to the doctor's office cost three dollars and doctors still made house calls. This work recounts the author's fifty years of service as a rural doctor in Texas and Nebraska, where a spectrum of dile... read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Bison Books
Date Published: 1998
ISBN-13:9780803263895ISBN:0803263899
Description: Very Good in Very Good jacket. Very good. Slight shelf wear. Edges bumped; Paperback; 8vo; Date of Publication: 'c1998'; City of Publication: 'Lincoln, Neb. '; Subject: 'Western Biography' read more
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