The autobiography of a general medical practitioner for more than half a century in Monroe County, Pennsylvania.

An anthology that addresses the changing nature of rural medicine in the United States "These authors courageously document the emotional and literally physical vulnerabilities they experience while delivering care in rural communities. ... This book exquisitely illustrates the complexity of 'dual relationships' and boundary issues in rural practice."--Family Medicine Over the past thirty years, rural health care in the United States has changed dramatically. The stereotypical white-haired doctor with his black bag of instruments and his predominantly white, small-town clientele has imploded: the global age has reached rural America. Independently owned clinics have given way to a massive system of hospitals; new technology now brings specialists right to the patient's bedside; and an increasingly diverse clientele has sparked the need for doctors and nurses with an equally diverse assortment of skills. The Country Doctor Revisited is a fascinating collection of essays, poems, and short stories written by rural health care professionals on the experiences of doctors and nurses practicing medicine in rural environments, such as farms, reservations, and migrant camps. The pieces explore the benefits and burdens of new technology, the dilemmas in making ethically sound decisions, and the trials of caring for patients in a broken system. Alternately compelling, thought provoking, and moving, they speak of the diversity of rural health care providers, the range of patients served in rural communities, the variety of settings that comprise the rural United States, and the resources and challenges health care providers and patients face today.

"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 is titled "MUNGANGA: The Memoirs of a Country doctor" for good reason. It records the years of planning and education of Edwin Harris who always wanted to be a doctor, and the life he chose in the wilds of deepest Africa. (MUNGANGA is an anglicized rendering of the Swahili word, mgunga, for doctor or healer.) In his early years of practice in Southern New Jersey, he actually was a country doctor. Starting out during the Great Depression of the '20's, when money was hard to come by, office visits were two dollars and house calls were three dollars. Many times patients were unable to even afford that and paid with chickens, or veggies...though many times the service was gratis. For young Edwin Harris, MD, the sick had to be cared for! This book details how he met his wife Gladys, and how the two agreed to follow God's leading to the Belgian Congo about 1930, with their family of three. There he set up another country practice for the local natives. His dispensary this time was a tent set up under a tree, with Gladys as his "trained" nurse when needed. Also his young son Dick (who co-wrote this book) was his dispensary aide, washing patients body sores with an antiseptic solution. A prime motive for going to Africa was Edwin's interest in leprosy which was a rampant disease in that part of Africa. While out in the Congo during that term in the early 1930's the Unevanglized African Mission (UAM) went broke and the Harris family was temporarily abandoned in darkest Africa. But their trust and faith in God provided a way out and back into civilization. And the rest is history.

A young Egyptian woman clashes with her traditional family when she chooses a career in medicine. Rather than submit to an arranged marriage and motherhood, she cuts her hair short and works fiercely to realise her dreams. At medical school, she begins to understand the mysteries of the human body. After years of denying her own desires, the doctor begins a series of love affairs that allow her to explore her sexuality – on her own terms.