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Also like the oldtimers' is Dr. Reeves's relationship with his patients. He knows most of them by their first names. (Nobody, not even his wife, now calls him anything but "Doc.") Born & raised on a farm near Madison in eastern Nebraska, Doc Reeves can talk with his...
As he sees it, the days of appendectomies on farmhouse kitchen tables are gone, and good riddance. "You can train the public to plan in advance and get to the hospital," says Dr. Reeves. "It's better for the patient and better for the doctor. In this day & age...
Materially, country doctors are far better off than they used to be. Though their fees are moderate ($50 for a delivery, an average of $125 for an appendectomy), Drs. Reeves and McShane are estimated to gross more than $20,000 a year each. And still, like oldtimers, they give onefifth...
The problem becomes especially sharp, Steere argues, when Protestants undertake to cultivate a devotional life-"whether it is the framing of a liturgy for corporate worship, or a set of retreat exercises, or instructions for private prayer." To the free church congregations, for whom sacramentalism or the priest's...
"In spite of every surface indication to the contrary, there are prophets among us who see our catastrophic cultural situation in the West as bringing us nearer and nearer to the threshold of an age ... of Christian laymen permeating the world with an inward spiritual religion which would touch each...