A Country Doctor Writes

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Author: Hans Duvefelt, MD

Publisher:

Published: 2020-07-02

Total Pages: 252

ISBN-13:

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A hundred short essays on diagnoses made, missed or just encountered and some of the human circumstances, destinies, tragedies and victories a country doctor has encountered during 40 years in Family Medicine. Based on his blog A Country Doctor Writes, these vignettes by Swedish born physician Hans Duvefelt range from Alexithymia to what doctors call Zebras, exotic conditions they always look for but usually never encounter. From delivering babies to attending timely and untimely deaths, they touch on every stage of life. Some pieces describe overlooked diseases and disease mechanisms and some describe heart rending life circumstances caused by both rare and common diseases. EARLY PRAISE"Hans is a wonderful storyteller. As a primary care physician myself, I look up to the wisdom, insight, and inspiration that resonate from his stories." (Kevin Pho, MD, Founder, KevinMD, Keynote physician speaker)"Whether you are a college student or a medical student considering a career as a Family Physician or if you are a resident looking to learn from a master clinician or someone who enjoys stories from the world of practice, this book is for you." (Laurence Bauer, MSW, MEd, CEO Family Medicine Education Consortium)"Hans is a great writer. His pieces capture the essence of being a Family Doctor in a small town."(Zoya Khan, Editor-In-Chief, The Health Care Blog)

A Country Doctor Writes

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Author: Hans Duvefelt

Publisher:

Published: 2020-09-06

Total Pages: 266

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A hundred short essays on what it is like and what it takes to become and remain a physician and the challenges and and victories a country doctor has encountered during 40 years in Family Medicine. Based on his blog A Country Doctor Writes, these vignettes by Swedish born physician Hans Duvefelt range from his first day of Medical School to accepting a senior colleague's decision to give up medicine for good. From the concept of Apostolic Medicine to his analysis of the causes and cures of the burnout epidemic, these essays paint a firsthand, deep and nuanced picture of a lifetime in medicine.

Fifty Years a Country Doctor

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Author: Hull Cook

Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

Published: 1998-01-01

Total Pages: 218

ISBN-13: 9780803263895

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"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 humourous 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". -- Jacket.

A Country Doctor

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Author: Sarah Orne Jewett

Publisher:

Published: 1884

Total Pages: 368

ISBN-13:

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"This is Miss Jewett's first novel, her former efforts having been confined to short stories. To a plot of unusual interest she brings, as a physician's daughter, a close familiarity with the incidents of a doctor's life; and this, combined with wonderful acuteness of observation and a graceful styled, make a book of very unusual interest. " --publisher's summary.

A Fortunate Man

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Author: John Berger

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 1997-03-25

Total Pages: 177

ISBN-13: 067973726X

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In this quietly revolutionary work of social observation and medical philosophy, Booker Prize-winning writer John Berger and the photographer Jean Mohr train their gaze on an English country doctor and find a universal man--one who has taken it upon himself to recognize his patient's humanity when illness and the fear of death have made them unrecognizable to themselves. In the impoverished rural community in which he works, John Sassall tend the maimed, the dying, and the lonely. He is not only the dispenser of cures but the repository of memories. And as Berger and Mohr follow Sassall about his rounds, they produce a book whose careful detail broadens into a meditation on the value we assign a human life. First published thirty years ago, A Fortunate Man remains moving and deeply relevant--no other book has offered such a close and passionate investigation of the roles doctors play in their society. "In contemporary letters John Berger seems to me peerless; not since Lawrence has there been a writer who offers such attentiveness to the sensual world with responsiveness to the imperatives of conscience." --Susan Sontag

Reflections of a Country Doctor

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Author: Barry Ladd

Publisher: Glenbridge Publishing Ltd.

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13: 9780944435373

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Meet Barry Ladd. He is a family physician who practiced medicine for thirty years in a small country town, forty miles south of a major city. He calls it "Our Town", because the residents, including himself, so personally identified with the community. In the thirty years that Ladd practiced in "Our Town", he delivered fifteen hundred babies and had one hundred and eighty thousand office visits. He delivered the babies of the babies, and took care of four generations in the same family. During that time, there was an explosion of technology and scientific information. The practice of medicine shifted from being more of an art to being more of a science. During this time, Ladd was a participant and observer. He saw how personal events and decisions played out over time. He tells his readers what he saw, heard, and felt. These are all true stories. Some are composites of several people. The names have been changed.

Reflections of a Country Doctor

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Author: Jimmie L. Ashcraft

Publisher: Dog Ear Publishing

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 306

ISBN-13: 1608441997

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This book contains my reflections upon my 26 years as an "old time" generalist family physician in rural America. It is merely a collection of stories that depict some of my many experiences over the years. The stories mirror those of many of my generalist colleagues who have experienced "the trenches" of rural primary care. My stories span the breadth and depth of the discipline of rural family medicine. Stories range from assisting mothers giving birth to caring for and comforting those at the end of life, from performing surgery to becoming involved in one's community, and from making house calls to providing emergency room care. Some are silly, some are sad, some are funny, and some may make you mad. JIMMIE ASHCRAFT, M.D. Doctor Ashcraft is a graduate of the University of Oregon Medical School. He was a member of the clinical staff of the University of Washington Medical School for 30 years. Doctor Ashcraft and his wife, Kay, live in Montana. They have three grown children and six grandchildren.

A Measure of My Days

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Author: David Loxterkamp

Publisher: UPNE

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 338

ISBN-13: 9780874518856

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A family physician describes the universal struggle with adversity and discovers strength through work, faith, community, and love.

An Irish Country Doctor

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Author: Patrick Taylor

Publisher: St. Martin's Press

Published: 2011-08-02

Total Pages: 452

ISBN-13: 9780765368249

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"This book was previously published in 2004 under the title The apprenticeship of Doctor Laverty, by Insomniac Press, Toronto"--T.p. verso.

Secrets of a Country Doctor

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Author: James W. Elliott

Publisher: The Overmountain Press

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 108

ISBN-13: 9781570722776

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A humorous, anecdotal history of the author's medical practice from 1936 to 1988, it describes a simpler time, during which doctors practiced without many of the problems that face modern physicians: forms to complete for every procedure, overcrowded offices, second opinions, high insurance costs, etc. In fact, much of the book is about the unique doctor-patient relationships that existed before the age of health insurance. It was a different kind of time, when the family doctor often met his patient at the emergency room and remained the sole treating physician throughout the hospital stay.