Manhattan Country Doctor

Abstract

Manhattan Country Doctor is indeed about a country doctor who, after unsuccessfully searching for a rural practice in post-Depression Virginia, was told by his wife that People are the same everywhere... so is medicine. You can be a country doctor in Manhattan. Dr Slocum is a trained journalist writing about his medical career, from his internship at Flowers Hospital in Manhattan and postgraduate studies in Vienna through the end of his career in Hell's Kitchen 35 years later (he retired to practice 15 more years in California). This easily read memoir is essentially a professional autobiography tracing the medical career of a country doctor through the multiplicity of learning experiences that led to his becoming a well-rounded physician. The book itself is composed of many short chapters, each dealing with an interesting aspect of the practice of medicine, such as hiring and working with office assistants (his wife always interviewed