A country doctor's chronicle : further tales from the north woods / Roger A. MacDonald.

Author
MacDonald, Roger A., 1924- [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
St. Paul, MN : Borealis Books, ©2004.
Description
xiii, 188 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

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    House calls. Flu epidemics. Terminal illnesses. Coroner duties. Fishhook incidents. For more than three decades, Roger A. MacDonald served the people of Minnesota's north woods as a family practitioner and jack-of-all-trades, even responding to the occasional "barn call" for ailing animals. In this new collection of stories, MacDonald takes readers on another round of house calls, office visits, and emergency summons. His remote practice saw patients of every age and type, from a local child with a penchant for putting things up his nose to a dedicated church pianist with untreatable cancer, from a teenager with unexplained seizures to a vacationing Mafioso recovering from a heart attack. MacDonald offers tales of patients, colleagues, and neighbors, probing their very human responses to medical dilemmas and sharing humorous and touching episodes in equal portions. A Country Doctor's Chronicle is a charming collection of vignettes--some hopeful, some heartbreaking--that offer a unique look at a bygone era of twentieth-century rural America. amazon.com
    Notes
    Sequel to: A country doctor's casebook. c2002.
    Contents
    • House calls
    • Vivian
    • Where there's the will
    • Maud and Lars
    • My very last home delivery
    • Esther
    • Assumptions
    • Bill Makos
    • The human essence
    • To hear or not to hear
    • The Boman incident
    • Ardith
    • Joel Monroe
    • Harvey and Frances
    • Oh, those office calls!
    • Hannah Munson
    • Marijoan and Foghorn
    • The vet is in
    • Epidemic
    • Acute stoppage of the heart
    • Seymore Adams
    • The elephant in the living room
    • Aristotle
    • In the line of duty
    • Weird and wondrous wounds
    • A man does
    • Miss Emerson
    • Potpourri
    • Tanya
    • Requiem
    • Folk medicine
    • ER, Northpine style
    • The luck of the Chippewa
    • The doctor's family was involved
    • Heaven
    • The torch has been passed.
    ISBN
    • 0873515099 ((alk. paper))
    • 9780873515092 ((alk. paper))
    • 9781681340234 ((paperback))
    • 1681340232 ((paperback))
    LCCN
    2004008630
    OCLC
    54988965
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