| 50 Years a Country Doctor Contributor(s): Cook, Hull (Author) |
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ISBN: 0803263899 ISBN-13: 9780803263895 Publisher: Bison Books OUR PRICE: $15.26 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 1998 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Medical (incl. Patients) |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 97050636 |
| Lexile Measure: 980 |
| Series: Bison Books |
| Physical Information: 0.49" H x 5.29" W x 8.04" (0.51 lbs) 203 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 20th Century - Cultural Region - Plains - Cultural Region - South - Cultural Region - Western U.S. - Demographic Orientation - Rural - Geographic Orientation - Nebraska - Geographic Orientation - Texas |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. Hull Cook is a retired physician in Sidney, Nebraska. This is his first book. |