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1 online resource (574 pages) |
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Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; Editor's Note; Introduction; Part 1; Reflections; A Tribute to the Family Doctor; A Country Doc; Three Generations of Family Docs; The Son of a Family Doctor; Patients Are People; Times Are Changing; Looking Back and Looking Forward; Passing the Torch; Part 2; Family Practice Stories; The Art of Using Placebos; It's Time for Your Physical; Did You Notice She Was Wearing a Sweater?; When a Doctor Does Not Want to Be Found; December 7, 1941; A Lesson in Professionalism; The Tooth; A Very Important Piece of Equipment; House Call Companion |
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Of Horses and BuggiesThe Illusive Hernia; Beyond the Usual Call of Duty; A Desperate Move; It's Just the Way It Was; The Attack; Naked Ladies; Miracle Baby; A Daughter's Broken Arm; The Last Little Girl; Third Time's the Charm; A Snowy House Call; The True Use of Boiling Water; A Loaded Diagnosis; They Know Where to Find You; The Smell of Smallpox; Lines of Love; Doctor's Helping Hands, and Sometimes Feet; A Rare Diagnosis; Switching Roles; Four Helpful Sons; "Checking Out"; The Sting; A New Disease; You Just Cannot Help Everyone; Just Let Me Go Home; Wallpapered Love; Slippers |
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Holding a HandThe Old Days; Big Ears; Those Calls in the Middle of the Night; House Calls; From the Tropics to the Hoosier State; Not the Brightest Nurse; Take One Practical Joke, Twice a Day; Oh, the Places You'll Go and Still Be Recognized!; An Unexpected Visit; It's All in the Family; Strong-Arming Your Patients; Listening; Obstetrical Surprises; Delivering Babies; Treating the Eternal; A Memorable Surgery; The Indiana University School of Medicine; The Days of the Medical School Pyramid; An Expensive House Call; Welcome to Town, Doc; Maria |
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Some of the Best Lessons Are the Ones You Teach YourselfThe Right Answer; The Back-Door Approach; The Ten-Dollar Delivery; I Recognize Your Face but I Sure Don't Know Your Name; I'm a Doctor, I Promise; Famished; Memorable Victories; A Late-Night Phone Call; If There Was Only an Instant Replay; Grandma's Ailment; The Godfather of Medicine; When Insults Are Really Expressions of Respect; A Person to Emulate; A Child Found; Flames; Dispensing Pills; Bantering with the Sister; A Stranger in Need; The Invisible Baby; Outdoor Obstetrics; A Cautionary Tale; A Grateful Cat |
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A Cure Worse Than the DiseaseA Special Prescription; The Urine Sample; Better than Money; Susan; The Thrill of It All; The Ones That Didn't Make It; Come Sleet or Come Snow; Careful What You Ask a Child!; The Fire; Doing What Needs to Be Done; With a Little Help from My Friends; Doctor and Friend; Baby Drop; Protecting Little Hockey Players; The Recipe; Oops! An 1,800 Mistake!; Death of a Little Boy; A Patient's Prayer; Epilogue; About the Author |
| Summary |
An initiative of the Indiana Academy of Family Physicians and the Indiana Academy of Family Physicians Foundation, Family Practice Stories is a collection of tales told by, and about, Hoosier family doctors practicing in the middle of the twentieth century. The stories celebrate that time in America considered to be the golden age of generalism in medicine--a time that conjures up Norman Rockwell's familiar archetypal images of the country family doctor and a time when the art of healing was at its zenith |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Physicians (General practice) -- Indiana -- Anecdotes
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Physicians -- Indiana -- Biography
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Medicine, Rural -- Indiana -- Anecdotes
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Family medicine.
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Home nursing.
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Physicians (General practice)
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General Practitioners
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Family Practice
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House Calls
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Home nursing
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Family medicine
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Medicine, Rural
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Physicians
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Physicians (General practice)
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Indiana -- Biography
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Indiana |
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Indiana
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| Genre/Form |
Personal narratives
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Anecdotes
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Biographies
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Anecdotes.
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Personal narratives.
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Anecdotes.
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Récits personnels.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780871953575 |
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0871953579 |
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