. Stories of a country doctor . HE UPS AND DOWNS IN EARLY PRAC-TICE. THE COUNTRY DOCTOR—THE YOUNG DOCTORS DREAM—OBSTACLES—MY FIRST CASE—LAUGHING DOWN HER THROAT—THE WIDOW B. AND THE NIGHT I SLEPT WITH THE CAT—A BLOOD CURDLING INCIDENT. HERE are few callings in lifewhich bring so much of toiland hardship without recom-pense, and so tax a man in hismental and physical powerswithout adequate return asthat of the practice of medi-cine. This is especially trueof the country practitioner, andmore especially true of theyoung country practitioner. I know what the dream of the young doctor is be-fore h
. Stories of a country doctor . HE UPS AND DOWNS IN EARLY PRAC-TICE. THE COUNTRY DOCTOR—THE YOUNG DOCTORS DREAM—OBSTACLES—MY FIRST CASE—LAUGHING DOWN HER THROAT—THE WIDOW B. AND THE NIGHT I SLEPT WITH THE CAT—A BLOOD CURDLING INCIDENT. HERE are few callings in lifewhich bring so much of toiland hardship without recom-pense, and so tax a man in hismental and physical powerswithout adequate return asthat of the practice of medi-cine. This is especially trueof the country practitioner, andmore especially true of theyoung country practitioner. I know what the dream of the young doctor is be-fore he starts out in practice. He imagines himself set-tled in a prosperous and growing city. He occupiestwo or three magnificently furnished rooms in one of thebest business blocks for an office. In imagination hesees himself sitting in this splendid palace, and theJudge, the General, and the Colonel, the firstcitizens of the town, coming to him to have their ail-ments attended to, and calling him to their residences in. Thb Ups and Downs in Early Practice. 183 cases of serious illness, and all goes merry as a mar-riage bell. He is cruel enough in his vain-glorious im-agination to get up a case of serious sickness, with theJudges only daughter as the patient. She is sick al-most unto death, and he gets up some private theatricalswhen he announces that the crisis is passed and the fairone is safe ; when the mother in her joy weeps out herthanks upon his scientific neck, while the Judge, in agruff and dignified way, hands him a check big enoughto buy a small town, and says : Take her, my dear doctor, take her; you havefairly won her and she is yours. This is the way it happens before we begin, but itis far from the reality. We find at last that it is in ourprofession, as it is in every thing else, that which isworth having must be procured at the sacrifice of greatlabor. The young doctor, in order to do any practice at all,is often compelled to begin his professional care
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