The Country Doctor.

The Crow and the Country Doctor

A FLOCK of Crows was much alarmed one day at the sight of a strange object in the midst of a field upon which they customarily fed. They at once called upon an old Crow who practised his profession in those parts, and who made a specialty of corns, to give his opinion about the matter. The Crow, having examined the object, shook his head, and said that it was a serious case, and that it was luc...

Will Pickles of Wensleydale. The Life of a Country Doctor

Will Pickles of Wensleydale. The Life of a Country Doctor. by JOHN PEMBERTON, London, Geoffrey Bles, 1970, pp. 224, illus., £2-50. Will Pickles (1885-1969) was a country general practitioner of Wensleydale, who made a positive contribution to epidemiology, defining the incubation periods of infectious fevers by a method which he described as 'the short and only possible contact'. He applied a s...

Future potential country doctor: the perspectives of German GPs.

INTRODUCTION There is a shortage of general practitioners (GPs) in many countries, especially in rural areas. There are several reasons for this shortage. Over the last decade, fewer medical students in Germany have decided to work in patient care, even fewer in general practice and fewer still in general practice in rural areas. The aim of this study was to explore the 'pros and cons' of GPs' ...

Robert Darwin, F.r.s. (1761-1848): Splendid Country Doctor.

The French country doctor: caring for the sick through the centuries.

In 1958, World health magazine reported on Dr Edmond, a country doctor in Genouillac, in the central French region of Limousin. On the occasion of the journalists’ visit, the doctor had just sat down with his family to Sunday lunch when he was called away to treat a patient in his household surgery. After donning his white coat, the doctor made an incision in the patient’s right hand, extracted...