A Country Doctor’s Chronicle: Further Tales from the North Woods

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House calls. Flu epidemics. Terminal illnesses. Coroner duties. Fishhook incidents. For more than three decades, Roger A. MacDonald served the people of Minnesota’s north woods as a circle of relatives practitioner and jack-of-all-trades, even responding to the occasional barn call for in poor health animals. On this new choice of stories, MacDonald takes readers on some other round of house calls, place of work visits, and emergency summons.

His remote practice saw patients of all ages and type, from a local child with a penchant for putting things up his nose to a dedicated church pianist with untreatable cancer, from a youngster with unexplained seizures to a vacationing Mafioso recovering from a heart attack. MacDonald offers tales of patients, colleagues, and neighbors, probing their very human responses to medical dilemmas and sharing humorous and touching episodes in equal portions. A Country Doctor’s Chronicle is a charming choice of vignettes—some hopeful, some heartbreaking—that offer a unique take a look at a bygone era of twentieth-century rural The usa.

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