Word: mcarthur
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There has been no big medical emergency in Vinton County, Ohio, recently-no epidemics, no multiple accidents. Still, the 10,000 residents have been apprehensive. In February their doctor and neighbor of 22 years, Richard Bullock, left abruptly. No other physician lives or practices in the county seat of McArthur, and the closest hospital is 25 miles away. At last, an intensive search for a new general practitioner has succeeded; a new doctor will soon be at the consulting room desk on which Bullock left his stethoscope nine months...
Patient on Call. In 1948, when Bullock first came to McArthur, there were three other doctors to help meet the area's medical needs. By 1959, the death or departure of his colleagues had left him the sole physician. Vacations, even days off, became luxuries beyond his reach. "I had office hours six days a week," he recalls now, "but there wasn't a Sunday I didn't have to go into the office for one thing or another." Bullock attempted to give up work at the hospital, which consumed a large part of his time, only...