{"product_id":"50-years-a-country-doctor-9780803263895","title":"50 Years a Country Doctor","description":"In a world of HMOs, insurance companies, and an endless flood of forms, Hull Cook reminds us that there was a time when a visit to the doctor's office cost three dollars and doctors still made house calls. 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. He describes helping to deliver a baby via telephone during the Blizzard of '49, and he explains his \"special delivery\" of medication in the dead of winter--an operation involving his Beechcraft Bonanza airplane and a parachute jerry-rigged from dental floss and a red handkerchief. Cook saw it all, from cow-manure poultices to snakebite to kerosene poisoning to drug addiction. His humorous 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHull Cook (1911-2001) lived in Sidney, Nebraska, for several years before moving to Bellingham, Washington.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Bison Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50413086671122,"sku":"9780803263895","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_908b6c18-a780-4141-ad27-9e4c8cd78ab9.jpg?v=1729345481","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/50-years-a-country-doctor-9780803263895","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}