Word: docs
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Team. Husky Doc Reeves looks what he is: an ex-football player. Just short of six feet, he still has a lithe, athletic bearing, no trace of waistline bulge. A broken neck (compression of the fourth cervical vertebra), suffered in the last quarter of his last game as a guard at Midland College at Fremont, still bothers him occasionally and he gets Mrs. Reeves to massage it. To encourage high-school athletics, Dr. Reeves serves (without fee) as physician for the football and basketball teams...
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 patients about stock and crops, fodder and weather. In his office or at the hospital he can hear the shrill yipping of cowboys as they drive a herd of red Herefords through the middle of town to a feed lot. Many of his cases are cowboys with broken bones...