Memories, Stories, and Lessons Learned from Five Decades of Family Medicine... Dr. Robert Chambliss knows how important it is to set a good example. When he was just nine years old, he attended an Honors Day ceremony given for the beloved "country doctor" who helped his family and community, and he knew then and there that he was called to that same profession. Raised with a superb work ethic and high standards instilled in him by his steadfast, dedicated father and loving, brilliant mother, Robert broke away from the family farm to pursue his dream. He began his practice in 1964 in the Appalachian foothills as Kentucky's youngest practicing physician. After a few years, he returned home to follow in the footsteps of his inspiration, Dr. Kincheloe, also a native of Breckenridge County, Kentucky.

"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.

This book will be of interest to those studying French medical and Revolutionary history. It traces the life of an early-modern rural French physician from childhood to death — how he worked as a physician for six years in North Africa (taking a particular interest in medical meteorology); sought to establish himself as a savant in the Republic of Letters by publishing texts and prize-winning essays; and, despite his bourgeois roots, took part in the siege of Toulon, became committed to the ideals of the French Revolution, and volunteered for the Revolutionary armée d’Italie, mainly working in military hospitals. It concludes with an account of his time practicing medicine in southwest France, where he also engaged in local politics, eventually being appointed to a mayoral position by Bonaparte.