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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Edition: First edition.
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: University of Nabraska, Nebraska
Date Published: 1998
ISBN-13:9780803263895ISBN:0803263899
Description: Very good. No dust jacket. Signed by author. signed and inscribed. 203 p. "Lively tales from the rural medical beat...Cook delivers one rollicking anecdote after another..." read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: UNIV OF NEBRASKA PR
Date Published: 1998
ISBN-13:9780803263895ISBN:0803263899
Description: New. 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 ru... read more
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