An Amish House Call

On Being a Doctor21 November 2000An Amish House CallRaymond D. Hobbs, MDRaymond D. Hobbs, MDDr. Hobbs: Oakwood Hospital; Dearborn, MI 48124Search for more papers by this authorAuthor, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-133-10-200011210-00018 SectionsAboutFull TextPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail Making house calls was exhausting. It was late afternoon, time for the Sunday meal, and he was dead tired. Fortunately, these were familiar back roads in the county where he had practiced for many years, and there was only one more name on the list. He glanced briefly at the note. It gave the address of a woman who needed a vitamin B12 shot. He found the house, well known to him from previous visits, pulled the car into the driveway, parked it, got out, and went to the side door. The family was sitting at the table, about to ... Author, Article, and Disclosure InformationAffiliations: Dr. Hobbs: Oakwood Hospital; Dearborn, MI 48124Corresponding Author: Raymond D. Hobbs, MD, 3319 River Pines, Ann Arbor, MI 48103; e-mail, [email protected]com. PreviousarticleNextarticle Advertisement FiguresReferencesRelatedDetails Metrics 21 November 2000Volume 133, Issue 10Page: 834-836KeywordsBronchitisMilkPneumoniaResidencyRiversRunningSmellSweatThermometersThorax ePublished: 21 November 2000 Issue Published: 21 November 2000 Copyright & PermissionsCopyright © 2000 by American College of Physicians. All Rights Reserved.PDF downloadLoading ...