Word: doctorless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lush, goober-growing country, Plains had been without a physician since 1951, when Dr. Colquitt Logan virtually retired at 71 after having two operations for cataracts. Like 50-odd Georgia towns (and 1,450 now on record in the U.S.) listed as wanting a doctor, Plains might have gone doctorless for a long time...
Agony Hour. Alaska is virtually doctorless. In the great land's entire western half (250,000 sq. mi.), only Nome boasts a private practitioner. The job is mainly up to seven public-health physicians, including Dr. Brownlee, at five tiny U.S. hospitals run by the Alaska Native Health Service. They serve only 30,000 people, but visiting patients is usually out of the question. For hours at a time, every night, the "agony hour" radio dialogue goes...
...with unfortunate colleagues." But the A.M.A. gets no friendly cooperation from most state medical societies. Among the least hospitable states are several in which rural communities have been crying for doctors-such as Wisconsin, where Dr. Joachim Bronny was rejected in 1948, despite pleas made for him by the doctorless village of Fairchild...