Country Doctor Revisited: A Twenty-First Century Reader

In: Literature & Medicine

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Cover -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction -- Who We Are -- Who We Are-Synopsis -- LIFEprayerDEATH -- Boundaries -- Mississippi Mayhem -- If You Don't Have What You Want -- Mom and Pop Doc Shop -- Stopping by Malnati's Meadow -- When Hostility Melted for the "Funny Accent" -- Mashkikiwinini: Thanking Sylvester for His Unconditional Smile -- A Psychiatrist Waits for His Ten o'clock Patient and Imagines He Is Han Shan -- Three Days Changed My Grandfather's Life -- Early Marriage: West Virginia -- Teen Pregnancy: "We Were Hoping" -- Indian Dinner in Johnson City -- White Coat at Midnight -- Where We Are -- Where We Are-Synopsis -- Spring Planting -- Welcome to Elma -- DINE: Navajo, People -- Learning from an Amish Birth -- Lost On Call -- Spring and All, Revisited-after William Carlos Williams -- Robotic Docs: Excerpts from Dick Gordon's The Story, National Public Radio -- A Vow of Connectedness: Views from the Road to Beaver's Farm -- Whom We Serve -- Whom We Serve-Synopsis -- Pursuing the American Dream: The Human Face of Immigration -- Cord -- Good Will -- Hanging On for Your Life -- The Brothers -- The Sisters-Written in Love -- I Am the Handmaiden of the Lord -- Cattleman -- Call -- Learning to Walk the Healer's Path -- Asking the Right Questions -- Our Resources and Challenges -- Our Resources and Challenges-Synopsis -- Everyone Did Their Part, But -- Inside the Mind of a Modern Country Doc -- Practice-Based Research-"Blue Highways" on the NIH Roadmap -- Local Medical Doctors: State-of-the-Art Healers -- A Night in the Life of a Rural Emergency Care Team: The Value of the Comprehensive Advanced Life Support Program -- Blog: Rural Mississippi-Aftermath of Hurrican Katrina -- The Dressing Change -- Thank God for My Ass -- Contributors -- Permissions & Acknowledgments -- About the Author -- Literature and Medicine Series.