Table of Contents
Introduction
Who We Are
- LIFEprayerDEATH -- Kathleen Farah
- Boundaries -- Megan Wills Kullnat
- Mississippi Mayhem -- Cinnamon Bradley-Jennett
- If You Don’t Have What You Want -- Joseph Gibes
- Mom and Pop Doc Shop -- Deborah Lee Luskin
- Stopping by Malnati’s Meadow I See -- Richard M. Berlin
- When Hostility Melted for the Funny Accent -- Godfrey Onime
- Mashkikiwinini: Thanking Sylvester for His Unconditional Smile -- Arne Vainio
- A Psychiatrist Waits for His Ten o’clock Patient and Imagines He Is Han Shan -- Richard M. Berlin
- Three Days Changed My Grandfather's Life -- David McRay
- Early Marriage -- Ann Floreen Niedringhaus
- Teen Pregnancy -- Patrician J. Harman
- Indian Dinner in Johnson City -- Abraham Verghese
- White Coat at Midnight -- Richard M. Berlin
- Who We Are--Synopsis -- Godfrey Onime
Where We Are
- Spring Planting -- Richard M. Berlin
- Welcome to Elma -- Mitchell L. Cohen
- DINE: Navajo People -- Maureen Connolly
- Learning from an Amish Birth -- Emily Kroening
- Lost On Call -- Ann Lederer
- Spring and All, Revisited -- Richard M. Berlin
- Robotic Docs--Excerpts from Dick Gordon's The Story, National Public Radio -- Dick Gordon
- A Vow of Connectedness: Views from the Road to Beaver’s Farm -- David Loxterkamp
- Where We Are--Synopsis -- Tom Bibey
Whom We Serve
- Pursuing the American Dream: The Human Face of Immigration -- Cesar Emilio Ercole
- Cord -- Holly Farris
- Good Will--Don Kollisch
- Hanging On for Your Life -- Lorence Gutterman
- The Brothers -- Ann Lederer
- The Sisters -- Anthony Fleg
- I Am the Handmaiden of the Lord -- William Orem
- Cattleman -- Michael R. Rosmann
- Call -- Michael Perry
- Facing Violence on My Home Land -- Erik Brodt
- Asking the Right Questions -- Therese Zink
- Whom We Serve-Synopsis -- Therese Zink and Tara Frerks
Our Resources and Challenges
- Everyone Did Their Part, But … -- Therese Zink
- Inside the Mind of a Modern Country Doctor -- Tom Bibey
- Practice Based Research-"Blue Highways" on the NIH Roadmap -- John M. Westfall, James Mold and Lyle Fagnan
- Local Medical Doctors: State-of-the-Art-Healers -- Gwen Wagstrom Halaas
- A Night in the Life of a Rural Emergency Care Team: The Value of the Comprehensive Advanced Life Support Program -- Darrell L. Carter
- Blog: Rural Mississippi, Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina -- Shailendra Prasad
- The Dressing Change -- Tara Frerks
- Thank God for My Ass -- Therese Zink
- Our Resources and Challenges--Synopsis -- Gwen Wagstrom Halaas