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Post by BuckSkin on Feb 16, 2024 7:53:33 GMT
Sunday_05-August-2018Merrimac Hospital and Doctor's OfficeThis was the home, office, and hospital of Doctor Clement Valandingham Hiestand during the 23-years between 1896 and 1918.
I am told that over 2,000 babies have been born there.
Robinson Creek in the foreground; barely shoe-top deep here; a far cry from the deep and wide creek it becomes before dumping into Green River Lake.
Merrimac - Taylor County - KentuckyNOTE: When you click the Dr. Hiestand link, be sure and click the newspaper article and then click "View Original and it will get large enough to read.
I like the little pitiful wormy-looking kid being examined; he looks as if he recently escaped a concentration camp.
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Post by hmca on Feb 16, 2024 14:42:13 GMT
Reminds me of when I was a young child. The doctor always made home visits.
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Post by BuckSkin on Feb 16, 2024 17:02:17 GMT
Reminds me of when I was a young child. The doctor always made home visits. If they were real doctors, they still would.
If I am sick enough to need a doctor, I am too sick to be dragging myself out of the house to go see one.
Also, if a person does go to the doctor's office with their immune defense already weakened by whatever malady it is that sent them there, sitting for hours among coughing, sneezing, slobbering, worse sick people than you will give you a disease worse than what you already had.
It is more about money today than making people better.
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Post by kdcintx on Feb 18, 2024 2:48:57 GMT
You are so right, Buckskin.
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