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Coming to Texas: a Newly Qualified Scottish Physician Arrives in the Lone Star State in 1960 and Becomes a Country Doctor.
Eric Anderson
Coming to Texas: a Newly Qualified Scottish Physician Arrives in the Lone Star State in 1960 and Becomes a Country Doctor.
Eric Anderson
A young Scottish doctor looks back on the unforgettable characters who became his patients in East Texas. Qualified as a doctor only 18 months before, he leaves the security of his medical school, his hospital and his heritage to start a single-handed rural practice in the wilds of Texashis only resources: his ex-flight attendant, pregnant wife and their year-old baby. They exchanged their city sophistication for a rustic life, their temperate climate for the appalling heat and humidity of Texas, and their culture and language for a behavior and speech based on one of America's last frontiers. Deceived by those who invited them to American and left briefly penniless; befriended by a nearby village without medical help and miles from a hospital, they cared for their new patients, covering, in an old Ford with a hole in the floor, a house-call area larger than New Hampshire and Rhode Island combined. Like their patients, they survived. Because they had each other.
Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
Released | October 1, 2000 |
ISBN13 | 9780595144037 |
Publishers | iUniverse |
Pages | 344 |
Dimensions | 149 × 21 × 224 mm · 562 g |
Language | English |
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