Medical Economics October 16, 2023
Staff

A photo essay from 1948 captures the life of a small town country doctor in vivid detail.

Our cover story, “A century of primary care transformation,” focuses in large part on what the daily life of a physician was in the days before insurance, computers and other tools we take for granted today. In fact, it was a time when many physicians still went to patients in home visits, rather than having the patients come to the office or hospital.

What was it actually like, to be a small-town country doctor? Thankfully, a landmark photo series published...

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