The country doctor revisited : a twenty-first-century reader / edited by Therese Zink.

Kent, Ohio : Kent State University Press, [2010], ©2010.

xii, 191 pages ; 24 cm.

Who we are- synopsis / Godfrey Onime -- LIFEprayerDEATH / Kathleen Farah -- Boundaries / Megan Wills Kullnat -- Mississippi Mayhem / C.D. Bradley-Jennett -- If you don't have what you want / Joseph Gibes -- Mom and pop doc shop / Deborah Lee Luskin -- Stopping by Malnati's meadow / Richard M. Berlin -- When hostility melted for the "funny accent" / Godfrey Onime -- Mashkikiwinini: thanking Sylvester for his unconditional smile / Arne Vainio -- A psychiatrist waits for his ten o'clock patient and imagines his is Han Shan / Richard M. Berlin -- Three days changed my grandfather's life / David McRay -- Early marriage: West Virginia / Ann Floreen Niedringhaus -- Teen pregnancy: "we were hoping" / Patricia J. Harman -- Indian dinner in Johnson City / Abraham Verghese -- White goat at midnight / Richard M. Berlin -- Where we are- synopsis / Tom Bibey -- Spring planting / Richard M. Berlin -- Welcome to Elma / Mitchell L. Cohen -- DINE: Navajo, people / Maureen Connolly -- Learning from an Amish birth / Emily Kroening -- Lost on call / Ann Neuser Lederer -- Spring and all, revisited / Richard M. Berlin -- Robotic docs: excerpts from Dick Gordon's The story, National Public Radio / Dick Gordon -- A vow of connectedness: views from the road to Beaver's farm / David Loxterkamp -- Whom we serve- synopsis / Therese Zink and Tara Frerks -- Persuing the American dream: the human face of immigration / Cesar Emilio Ercole -- Cord / Holly Farris -- Good will / Don Kollisch -- Hanging on for your life / Lorence Gutterman -- The brothers / Ann Neuser Lederer -- The sisters / Anthony Fleg -- I am the handmaiden of the Lord / William Orem -- Cattleman / Michael R. Rosmann -- Call / Michael Perry -- Learning to walk the healer's path / Erik Brodt -- Asking the right questions / Therese Zink -- Our resources and challenges- synopsis / Gwen Wagstrom Halaas -- Everyone did their part, but / Therese Zink -- Inside the mind of a modern country doc / Tom Bibey -- Practice-based research - "blue highways" on the NIH roadmap / John M. Westfall, James Mold, and Lyle Fagnon -- Local medical doctors: state-of-the-art healers / Gwen Wagstrom Halaas -- A night in the life of a rural emergency care team: the value of the comprehensive advanced life support program / Darrell L. Carter -- Blog: rural Mississippi- aftermath of Hurrican Katrina [sic] / Shailendra Prasad -- The dressing change / Tara Frerks -- Thank God for my ass / Therese Zink.

Includes bibliographical references.