Word: doctor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fishermen, loggers, chicken farmers and the elderly retired, whom Heath most commonly treats, are never embarrassed by oversize bills, sometimes settle accounts with the country doctor's traditional basket of eggs or a fresh-caught sockeye salmon. Last week the islanders found a different way of thanking "our beloved Doc." At Friday Harbor he was handed the keys to a new 20-room, $23,000 clinic, the finest in the area, financed by gifts from grateful patients and summer visitors. There were plenty of speeches, but after the ceremony Dr. Heath could hardly wait to celebrate in his usual...
...infant begins its passage from the uterus, the doctor gently encourages the mother to push as hard as she is able to during contractions. "Many people with the first one don't know how to push," he explains. "You are not hurting?" "Not at all," says the resting patient. "It's hard work ... I find it jolly tiring . . . Oh, let's get on. I have another contraction...
When the infant's head emerges, the fully conscious mother demands to know whether she has a boy or a girl. "I can't tell," the doctor replies. "That part isn't out yet." Moments later, the shrill wail of young David Usill rises above the murmur of the bedside sounds. "Oh, doctor," breathes the mother, "that's beautiful...
...seldom stays Dr. Malcolm Heath, 43, from his appointed rounds. By airplane, ferry, small boat and (in far-from-rare emergencies) Coast Guard cutter or seaplane, Dr. Heath brings a frontier brand of modern medicine to the islands' 7,000 residents and summer visitors. He is the only doctor in the islands and one of the most remarkable G.P.s anywhere...
Shocking Pink. North Carolina-born Mac Heath served as a paratroop flight surgeon in World War II, took a residency in obstetrics at Baltimore's Union Memorial Hospital after he came home. Later, Heath heard that an aging doctor in the San Juan Islands was dying of lung cancer, moved to Friday Harbor in 1949 and examined his first patients in the back seat of a car while waiting for his office equipment to arrive...