Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 78, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 December 1920 — In Defense of the Country Doctor. [ARTICLE]

In Defense of the Country Doctor.

Lexington, Ky.—That the old fashioned country doctor who learned his profession from “a book bought at an auction,” is more to be trusted in the diagnosis and treatment of many cases than many of the modern specialists, is the opinion of Dr. A. T. McCormack of the Kentucky state board of health, who delivered an address before the state health officers. But for the old country doctor there are many communities which would be so far from medical aid that untold suffering would result, declared Dr. McCormack.