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Synopsis
MAKING THE ROUNDS: Memoirs of a Small-Town Doctor shares the stories and insights of a compassionate and creative doctor who practiced family medicine for forty-two years in the small working-class town of Markle, Indiana. This well-crafted account develops the idea that the health of the individual is inextricably linked to the health of the community, and emphasizes the need for doctors to see the vital links between life stories.
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About the Author
Dr. Gerald L. Miller is also the author of "A Hundred Camels: A Mission Doctor's Sojourn and Murder Trial in Somalia." He is a family physician who worked for forty-two years in a rural Indiana community before retiring from the Markle Medical Center in 2006.
Shari Wagner teaches poetry and memoir writing for the Indiana Writers Center. She is the author and editor of five books and has had her work appear in The Writers Almanac with Garrison Keillor, Ted Kooser's American Life in Poetry, North American Review, Shenandoah, and The Christian Century.
From the Back Cover
"Small-town doctors have gone the way of small towns since Gerald Miller and Lee Kinzer set up practice in tiny Markle, Indiana in the 1960s. The technological advances that have so aggrandized medicine have exacted their cost, not just in dollars, but in human intimacy, in community. And those are not the stuff of nostalgia; they are health issues. Miller, in his second collaborative book with distinguished poet daughter Shari Wagner, guides us on a journey back to the heartwarming and heartbreaking time of $4 office visits, middle-of-the-night house calls and reliance on wits over widgets, all the while deflecting credit from an author who nevertheless emerges, like his late colleague, as nothing short of heroic. Making the Rounds is a gem--as a history lesson, elegy to loss, adventure series, and simple reminder: The physician can have no greater skills than listening and belonging."
--Dan Carpenter, former Indianapolis Star columnist and author of Indiana Out Loud: Dan Carpenter on the Heartland Beat
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